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CILAS deformable mirrors to focus your light and enhance your vision.
The initial deformable mirror developments started as early as 1973 at CILAS. The aim was to focus the laser beams through atmosphere for military applications.
In the mid-1980s, the astronomy community began to show a strong interest in these innovative techniques for ground telescopes. As early as 1989, CILAS developed and manufactured the deformable mirror of the Adaptive Optics system called COME-ON. It was the first demonstration of real-time correction of wavefront deformations, generated by the atmospheric turbulence.
Since then, Adaptive Optics has become a necessity in astronomy and today most large telescopes in the world have a CILAS deformable mirror in operation.
Based on piezoelectric technology, CILAS designs and manufactures :
An expert team will design the most appropriate mirror type matching the requirements.
CILAS deformable mirrors are an absolute necessity for a better and sharper observation of the sky. All our deformable mirrors perform high optical quality and lead to unmatched correction performances.
High intensity or ultra-fast laser systems rely on many optical elements, which make it difficult to obtain an aberration-free laser beam. With a MONO deformable mirror positioned in the path of the laser, distortions can be efficiently reduced.
Based on the MONOmorph technology, CILAS is currently developing deformable mirrors for space telescopes compatible with: