Onboard instrumentation

Bertin Winlight, a subsidiary of Bertin Technologies, provides space-based optical components and subsystems that will be carried on board telecommunications, earth observation and scientific research satellites. Designed to meet the severe constraints of space applications, these optical payloads – whether made of Aluminum, SIC, ZnSE, CaF2, silica… – are fully compliant with the industry’s strictest standards. They are tested in a thermal-vacuum chamber and on a shakers before being qualified for use. Thanks to its recognized know-how in polishing, Bertin offers simple, aspherical and freeform optics, which are assembled and tested in clean rooms (ISO 5 and 6) using high-precision assembly and adhesion techniques.

Bertin Winlight also provides opto-mechanical or opto-electronic subsystems for spectrometers, LiDARs, imagers or interferometers, for scientific, environmental or governmental use. Bertin Winlight also develops opto-mechanical modules (Focal Plane, Telescopes, High Power Multiplexer) for future optical communication systems in low earth orbit (LEO) or geostationary orbit (GEO). They will be able to equip Earth-to-space or inter-satellite communication missions.