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Imagine Optic Selection Guide

Imagine Optic Selection Guide

Imagine Optic Selection Guide

Product catalog summary
Overview
Imagine Optic is a leader in high-precision wavefront sensing and adaptive optics technologies, serving sectors such as space, defense, bioimaging, and industrial quality control. Their products enhance optical system performance in both industrial and academic environments.
Wavefront Analysis
The HASO™ wavefront sensors are key to Imagine Optic's offerings, providing detailed laser beam characterizations essential for optimizing beam shape and focal spots, particularly when used with adaptive optics like deformable mirrors.
Industrial Quality Control
Precision wavefront analysis is crucial for manufacturers of consumer electronics. Imagine Optic's products support the inspection of optical components, ensuring high standards in products such as mobile phone and intraocular lenses.
Space & Defense
In aerospace, precise measurement is vital. Imagine Optic's products offer custom solutions for satellite instruments and enhance free-space communication systems' operational range.
Semiconductors
Products like HASO UV and e-Xplorer™ are tailored for precision at specific wavelengths, optimizing nanolithography alignment and ensuring semiconductor wafer quality.
Microscopy
Adaptive optics solutions enhance imaging resolution in microscopy, allowing deeper tissue imaging and ensuring high-performance microscope objectives meet specifications.
Synchrotrons & FEL
Products like SH-LTP™ and HASO X enable precision metrology on synchrotron beam lines, aiding automatic beam alignment and microfocusing optimization.
Company Profile
Founded in 1996 in Orsay, France, Imagine Optic is Europe's leading manufacturer of Shack-Hartmann wavefront analysis and adaptive optics technologies, collaborating with top research entities and expanding their product line with innovations like the X-EUV wavefront sensor.
Product Innovations
Imagine Optic offers products such as SL-Sys™ for lens characterization, e-Xplorer™ for semiconductor analysis, and AOKit™ for adaptive optics in biology and laser technology.
Software Solutions
HASOv3 and StitchWave™ software provide comprehensive wavefront metrology and analysis, supporting multi-user environments and offering extended resolution for large optics characterization.
Clientele
Clients include major companies and organizations like Sony, Nikon, NASA, and the European Space Agency, highlighting their global reach and industry impact.
Specifications and Product Features
Key products include:
  • Rotation Stage ΘXΘY™: For mounting HASO sensors, featuring adjustable rotation axes for precise alignment.
  • Laser Diode: A monomode fibered reference source with adjustable power output.
  • Magic Source™: A monochromatic point source for high N.A. optics measurement.
  • mirao™ 52-e Electromagnetic Deformable Mirror: Enhances in vivo imaging contrast and resolution with 52 actuators.
Software Solutions
Main software solutions include:
  • CASAO™: Command and control software for wavefront measurement and correction, with diagnostics and security for high-power lasers.
  • GENAO™: Adaptive optics software for sensorless wavefront correction, suitable for life sciences imaging.
Adaptive Optics Components
Monomorph deformable mirrors are noted for superior wavefront correction in high-power laser applications, eliminating print-through effects.
Testimonials
Testimonials highlight the effectiveness of Imagine Optic's products in achieving high beam intensities and remarkable optical application results.
Contact Information
Contact details for Imagine Optic's offices in France, North America, and Spain are provided for further inquiries.
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Imagine Optic Selection Guide-1

wavefront analysis • space & defense bioimaging • lens testing • highpower lasers • industrial quality control• adaptive optics astronomy • microscopy x-euv • laser metrology beam alignment wafer surface planeness • nir synch rotrons x f e l s

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Pure science Our product line combines ease of use with the wide ranging functionality that scientific users depend on for aligning and characterizing the vast array of optical systems found in industrial and academic laboratories. HASO™ wavefront sensors enable you to perform complete characterizations of laser beams including phase, intensity, M², and Strehl ratio. When used in conjunction with adaptive optics wavefront correction devices such as deformable mirrors, HASO allows you to optimize the beam’s shape and focal spot. Industrial quality control With the growing demand for high-quality...

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“The SL-Sys liquid has significantly improved our R&D team’s ability to design new lenses as well as the quality of our products on the line.” Pierre Craen, Head of Systems Design, Varioptic SL-Sys™ neo The SL-Sys™ neo is a unique lens characterization solution designed for industrial R&D programs and for production line quality control. Based on Imagine Optic’s industry leading HASO™ wavefront sensor technology, the SL-Sys neo is the only commercially available system that enables you to completely and automatically characterize convergent (positive power) optical components with pupil diameters...

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“The AOKit - bio will enable us to image subcellular structures in live tissue at depths never acheived before.” Peter Kner, Sedat Lab, UCSF AOKit™ With 10 years of industry leading experience in the domain of adaptive optics, the AOKit line integrates the best of Imagine Optic’s products into one solution. The AOKit includes a HASO™3 wavefront sensor that provides true absolute measurement with simultaneous and independent measurements of both phase and intensity; a deformable mirror adapted to your application; and our industry acclaimed CASAO™ command & control software that provides instant...

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The HAS0™3 family of wavefront sensing and analysis products & accessories Our HASO products, based on patented Shack-Hartmann technology, are the only line of wavefront sensors that provide you with absolute achromatic measurement of both phase and intensity independently, simultaneously and in real-time. With hundreds of satisfied customers around the world, HASO sensors continue to expand the limits of wavefront metrology with their speed, performance and ease of integration. What's more, their insensitivity to vibration and compact design make them the ideal choice for demanding industrial...

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“The results we have acheived using HASO have been remarkable... Coupled with a deformable mirror, we reached the highest possible intensity.” Gérard Mourou, Director of the Applied Optics Laboratory (LOA) mirao™ 52-e Electromagnetic Deformable Mirror The mirao 52-e Electromagnetic Deformable Mirror is a unique product for professionals conducting cutting edge research in some of today’s most exciting domains. Versatile and innovative, when used in in vivo imaging applications, mirao enables users to increase contrast as well as to augment both the axial and transverse resolutions of their equipment....

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Imagine Optic SA (main office) 18 rue Charles de Gaulle 91400 Orsay France Telephone: +33 (0)1 64 86 15 60 Fax: +33 (0)1 64 86 15 61 E-mail: [email protected] Imagine Optic, Inc. (North America) Cambridge Innovation Center One Broadway, 14th floor Cambridge, MA 02142, USA Telephone: 1-617-401-2198 Fax: 1-617-930-9818 2415 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Telephone: 1-415-525-5557 Fax: 1-415-525-5558 E-mail: [email protected] COSINGO (Imagine Optic Spain SL) Mediterranean Technology Park Av. del Canal Olimpic s/n 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona) Spain Telephone: +34 935 534...

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