Onboard optical instrumentation

Bertin Winlight provides spaceborne components and sub-systems for use on telecommunications, earth observation, surveillance and scientific research satellites.

Our engineers are involved right from the initial design phase for the component or subsystem, using Nastran® to model behavior in thermal-vacuum and vibratory environments. We then participate in the construction and testing of the qualification model, prior to building the flight model.

Designed to meet the rigorous demands of space applications, these optical payloads – whether made of aluminum, SIC, ZnSE, CaF2, silica, etc. – are manufactured in full compliance with industry standards. They are tested in a thermal chamber and on a shaker before being qualified for flight.

Optical components

With its recognized expertise in polishing, Bertin Winlight offers simple, aspherical and freeform optics assembled and tested in clean rooms (ISO 5 and 6) using high precision assembly and bonding techniques.
These flexible assembly technologies, structural or soft bonding as well as molecular bonding, offer a variety of solutions to the challenges of alignment, stability and precision.

Opto-mechanical / Opto-electronic sub-systems

Bertin Winlight also designs opto-mechanical and opto-electronic sub-systems, which are integrated into instruments such as spectrometers, LiDARs, imagers and interferometers, for scientific, environmental or government applications.

Opto-mechanical modules

Bertin Winlight develops opto-mechanical modules such as telescopes, focal planes and high-power multiplexers, which will be integrated into future optical communications systems in low earth orbit (LEO) or geostationary orbit (GEO). These devices are designed to support optical space telecommunication missions (inter-satellite links), particularly in the context of constellations, as well as for direct communications between Earth and Space.