Optical workshop

Mission

Make optical components for the research teams of LCFIO, the engineering school and other research labs. It takes part in formations and know-how transfers towards other labs and industrial companies.

The optical workshop makes unique optical components, to the limits of nowadays possibilities in terms of roughness and precision. The applications go from thermal infrared to X-rays, including extreme ultraviolet (EUV).

A few passed realisations

• Mirrors for the EIT telescope of the ESA/NASA SoHO mission. Read more
• Mirrors for the EUVI telescopes of the NASA STEREO mission. Read more
• STF spectrometer: resolution 540000, EUV down to 60 nm. Read more
• The "Giants causeway for Lilliputians"

Underway and in the near future

• Improve superpolish roughness for an EUV application (normal incidence at a 6 nm wavelength is the aim)
• Mirrors for the HRI-EUV and FSI telescopes of the ESA Solar Orbiter mission. Read more