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Optical alignment of a telescope with a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor
Optical Alignment of a Telescope: Niko (foreground) in the Institute of Optics lab at the University of Rochester and Jerôme Ballesta, optical...
Lidar testing and alignment, Imagine Optic is your sidekick
Lidar testing and alignment. Is superman just an early LIDAR adopter? and simply masters all its features to perfection? Superman's arrival on earth...
Who the hell put his finger on my optics? Phase retrieval wavefront sensor
Phase retrieval wavefront sensor LIFT map reconstructed: Right. Residual wavefront error map acquired with standard Shack-Hartmann: Left. I had the...
Intense Laser Adaptive Optics: The ILAO-STAR
Intense Laser Adaptive Optics: Having laid the groundwork for understanding the importance of wavefront correction in Part 1, we now turn our...
Optical Aberration Correction in High-Power Lasers: ILAO-STAR
Figure 1. ILAO-Star 400 – 'one of the Stars of Imagine Optic's ILAO-STAR deformable mirrors, meticulously crafted to meet the requirements of...
Shack Hartmann wavefront sensors: and yet they are achromatic!
Flat earthers claim that our planet is flat, despite any physical evidence and simple observation. Should we mock those who deny the obvious?...
Laser beam diagnostics: a new approach to ISO 11146 standard
Laser beam diagnostics:What if Star Wars had deployed the ISO 11146 standard for laser beam diagnostics? We can't rewrite history, but we can still...
Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor, constant improvement of the technology through innovation
Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor . If Charles Darwin wasn't thinking of the Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor when he wrote his theory of evolution in...
Flatness measurement, when surface flatness gets critical…
Flatness measurement. Sometimes surface flatness really matters... either you are trying to break speed record at Bonneville salt flats like Dave...
Celebrating Nobel Prize in Physics, again!
Celebrating Nobel Prize: Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier, Nobel Prize laureates in Physics 2023 for experimental methods that...
Adaptive optics for Free Space Optics… and for fun!
Adaptive Optics Space Optics -Incredible as it may seem, the famous reporter Tintin was already thinking, back in 1941 in L’étoile mystérieuse,...
Optical characterization with a twist!
Optical Characterization - Spirals are ubiquitous in nature; why should laser beams be any different? Orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams have...