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.
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
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
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
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
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
Subaru is the 8.2-meter flagship telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on the Big Island of Hawaii. The name Subaru is Japanese
Starfire Optical Range (SOR), an institution of the US Air Force, is based at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. SOR’s mission is to “develop and demonstrate optical
The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. The VLT consists of four individual telescopes,
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