Category: New Developement

At this year’s ICSO, the International Conference on Space Optics in Antibes, France, we presented our new high-power fiber amplifier for satellite uplinks and deep space communications. Konstantin Holzner, the […]

The ALASCA (Advanced Laser Communication System Analysis) project, coordinated by the European Space Agency (ESA) with the support of ESO, the European Southern Observatory, aims to develop a robust, high-throughput […]

How many laptops can fit into a standard shipping container? We tried to find out during another week of on-sky measurements in La Palma (see our previous experimental run here) […]

Our first results with a frequency chirped laser in La Palma were published in MNRAS. For these tests we used the experimental “Wendelstein” laser unit from ESO, which was limited […]

Last week one could admire an additional star over Ottobeuren, where we carried out basic experiments at the Volkssternwarte (public observatory). The aim was to increase the fluorescence of the […]

PRO’s long-standing background collaboration with the Furukawa subsidiary OFS is bearing its first commercial fruits. The first system of the new Raman fiber laser series (RFL) has just been delivered […]

Together with ESO we performed on-sky tests of new technologies to boost the efficiency of laser excitation of atmospheric sodium atoms. For these experiments we are using the experimental “Wendelstein” […]

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. […]

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. […]