05/25 / 2011. The French Optical Society, the Advanced Research Cluster" Physics Triangle" and ONERA celebrated 30 years of quantum engineering on May 24th 2011 in the Pierre Faurre amphitheater of the École Polytechnique .. A powerful symbol of these golden years, a physicist, engineer and
Jean Pierre Cariou, former researcher at the Theoretical and AppliedOptics department at Onera (1984 to 2007), has become Director of Research and Development at Leosphere, one of the PME partners of Onera, specializing in the study of the atmosphere using lidar technology: the monitoring of high atmosphere pollution, meteorological measurement of clouds, wind, humidity, improving airport traffic flows, research into climate change, etc
The international AppliedOptics journal also selected the camera for the cover of its issue of the 10th of March 2012, on the occasion of the publication of the work. Follow us on twitter: twitter.com / #! /onera en
Onera / Department of Theoretical and AppliedOptics. This work has been done by teams from" the Calibration, Instrument Building and Optical Measuring" unit and" the Optical Instrument Design" unit of the Department of Theoretical and AppliedOptics at Onera, in collaboration with the Utinam Institute of the Observatory of Besançon and the DGA / Aeronautical Techniques
Images: integrated Onera / Optical Institute team coordinated by Christophe Coudrain, engineer in the Theoretical and AppliedOptics Department... Yann Ferrec, engineer in Onera's Theoretical and AppliedOptics Department and doctoral student at the Optical Institute
The first demonstrations of this principle were performed in ONERA's Onda laboratory (opto-electronic nanomaterials and related devices), from joint work with the Dota (ONERA's Department of Theoretical and AppliedOptics) and the CNRS / LPN (Laboratory of Photonics and Nanostructures). The research was supported with funding from the ANR and ONERA: the Carnot Antares and the Intrepid project
After a publication outlining the application of this technique to a pulsed laser in 2011, ONERA'sTheoretical and AppliedOptics Department implemented it in a lidar and proved that it worked without any degradation of the lidar signal. Before transferring the technology to industry, it must prove that it works at high powers: to date, two 50- Watt continuous lasers have been coherently combined the aim being to achieve two times 500 Watts
