Over the last two weeks, two of our engineers installed the guide star lasers for the GRAVITY+ upgrade at the VLTs in Paranal. The installation took place in an integration
This week we installed four of our amplifier systems for satellite uplinks and deep space communication at a customer site in the US. The large mode area amplifier systems will
Executing a contract signed in late 2017, TOPTICA Projects GmbH delivers the first guide star laser system for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) that is being built by with the
We are very excited for the first SodiumStar to go to an observatory located in Europe. The Gran Telescopio Canarias (also GRANTECAN or GTC) is a 10.4-m telescope at the
2019 saw two more SodiumStars going to Maunakea, one as a common spare for Keck, Gemini and Subaru Observatories and another one for the upcoming KAPA system at Keck I
Trips to Hawaii do not get boring, so we were thrilled to be back for another laser installation, this time at the Japanese Subaru telescope. The name Subaru is Japanese
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,
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
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
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