Optical Surfaces Ltd reports that it has received a follow-up order from Magdalena Ridge Observatory (MRO) to produce three second generation off-axis beam compressors to expand the capabilities of the facility’s optical interferometer.
Drawing upon decades of experience - Optical Surfaces Ltd. is regularly selected by leading laser research groups including AWE, ELI, LULI, and CLF Rutherford to provide ultra-smooth focusing mirrors and other related optics for the most demanding high-power laser applications.
Optical Surfaces Ltd is an established supplier of large diameter mirrors, optical flats, windows, lenses, beam expanders and collimators to leading research establishments worldwide.
Optical Surfaces Ltd has received an order to supply the University of Oxford, UK with 3 speciality glass prisms for a study that will enable defining key components in the state-of-the-art HARMONI spectrometer being developed for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT).
CAD model of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) - Courtesy of ESO.
The ELT, a flagship project of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), will be the largest ground-based optical telescope ever built. Located in Chile, with a primary mirror of 39m diameter, ESO’s ELT, together with its HARMONI spectrometer, is expected to make a huge impact in astronomical observations of exo-planets, Solar System objects, stars, nearby and distant galaxies, quasars and other exotic objects.