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
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”
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
This month we have started a large-scale project funded by the Eurpean Union within its Horizon 2020 framework targeting next-generation high-throughput free-space laser communications from the ground to satellites. We
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
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
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 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.
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
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