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ESO VLT Deformable Secondary Mirror
The new M2 unit for the VLT Adaptive Optics Facility. The image shows the 1120mm diameter and 2mm thick shell made by SAGEM arrived at our premises on Jan 31, 2012.
See more on the integration steps in the Adaptive Optics section.  
X-ray mirror shells Integration MAchine
ADS designed and built for INAF the Integration Machine (IMA) for their glass plate technology demonstrator of the ESA IXO/ATHENA telescope (IXO telescope rendering by NASA). The IMA allows the integration of the individual mirror modules made of a stack of mirror shells and their glass ribs. The construction of this machine was completed in Nov. 2011 at ADS premises. (cntd)
X-ray mirror shells Integration MAchine
The IMA is composed by a bench carrying two moulds for the integration of a mirror shells pair. Relative attitude of the two moulds is controlled at 0.1 arcsec level and cross checked by optical and electronics feedback. The moulds pair with the shells is positioned under the backplane which is hanging from the frame on the left: digital linear encoders provide the position and attitude feedback to the hexapod to place the shells pair in position.
LBT adaptive optics
The adaptive secondary mirror built by the Microgate-ADS-INAF team is producing unprecedented sharp images. The picture (by INAF) was taken during the First Light Adaptive Optics (FLAO) commissioning run. More info are available by LBTO.
Fermilab DECam hexapod
The image by Fermilab shows our hexapod successfully installed and tested at on the DECam project telescope simulator facility, before being moved on the Blanco 4m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (Chile) in 2012.
Festival della Scienza Genova 2011
ADS was present at the Festival della Scienza 2011 in Genova with CNR/INAF and Microgate presenting scientific achievements obtained with our deformable mirrors technology.
A.D.S. International (ADS) is a business company working in the field of telescope, radiotelescope and astronomical instruments design and production. By working in close co-operation with the Customer we follow our projects from the early feasibility phase down to the construction and field installation. We operate in a industrial facility located near Lecco (Italy), where we have office and laboratory area. We are equipped with up-to-date engineering and design tools and thanks to our mechanical workshop we can prototype directly our products. Moreover, in our own integration and calibration laboratory we perform directly in-house all the most critical steps of the production and qualification process of our instruments, thus assuring the Customer direct and full control of its product. Click on the pictures here below to get an overview of our facilities.
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