ESO Extremely Large Telescope
The Extremely Large Telescope is the gigantic 39-m telescope that ESO is building right now on Cerro Armazones in the Chilean Atacama desert close to the Paranal Observatory. Together with […]
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SodiumStar for the Gemini North Telescope
Shortly after the sister telescope in Chile, also the Gemini telescope in the northern hemisphere got their (first) TOPTICA SodiumStar. Led by Jeff, who had attended the installation in Chile, […]
OSA Forman Award
The Optical Society (OSA) has awarded the Guide Star Alliance of TOPTICA and MPBC with the 2017 Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award. We received the award on Sept. […]
SodiumStar for the Gemini South Telescope
The Gemini South telescope has been well known for its innovative adaptive optics system GeMS, which, since 2011, has been the first Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) system using multiple laser […]
Leibinger Award for Guide Star Alliance
On September 9th 2016, TOPTICA’s guide star laser SodiumStar 20/2 was rewarded with the third place of the highly prestigious Laser Research Innovation Award presented by the Berthold Leibinger Stiftung. […]
4LGSF First Light Event at VLT
On 26 April 2016 ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile hosted an event to mark the first light for the four SodiumStar laser systems that form a crucial part of the […]
Gemini Observatory
The Gemini telescopes are twin 8.1-meter telescopes, one located in the southern hemisphere near La Serena in Chile and the other one in the northern hemisphere on Maunakea on the […]
Four SodiumStars for Paranal
In 2013 through 2016, we installed four SodiumStar 20/2 systems first at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) headquarters in Garching and later at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) facility operated […]
Two SodiumStars for Starfire Optical Range
To our great delight, among the first customers of the SodiumStar 20/2 was Starfire Optical Range (SOR), an institution of the US Air Force, based at Kirtland Air Force Base […]
SodiumStar for the Keck II Telescope
Together with ESO, the W. M. Keck Observatory was involved in the development of the SodiumStar 20/2, providing additional specifications. Thus, in parallel to the deliveries to ESO, already in […]
