FMV Isik University Center for Optomechatronics Research & Application (OPAM) Commercial Enterprise is established to provide OEM / VAR optomechanical design & manufacturing, R&D, prototyping and project management for local and international companies in the area of optics and engineering.
First established on 2016, OPAM provided: Optomechanical design of DAG (Eastern Anantolian Obervatory 4 meter class VIS/IR telescope) & TUG (TUBITAK National Observatory 2.5 meter class VIS telescope) telescopes, the Adaptive Optics System and the two derotators of DAG telescope one of which is placed inside the telescope flange.
Prof. Dr. Cemal İbiş (Isik University rector and OPAM director)
Assist. Prof. Dr. Onur Keskin (Director)
Prof. Dr. Ercan Solak (Vice rector)
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Demirkol (Chairman of Mech. Eng. Dept.)
Assist. Prof. Dr. Onur Keskin
Assist. Prof. Dr. Erkin Dinçmen
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cahit Yeşilyaprak (External member)
Assist. Prof. Dr. Onur Keskin
Ali Cem Unal
Prof. Dr. Laurent
Audrey Bouxin
Joackim De Figueiredo
Turkish adaptive Optics system for Infrared Astronomy - TROIA
"Turkish adaptive Optics system for Infrared Astronomy - TROIA" is the designed and in production process adaptive optics system provided by OPAM to Eastern Anatolia Observatory (DAG) 4m VIS/IR telescope.
Eastern Anatolia Observatory (DAG) in-flange IR Derotator System - IRDR
"Eastern Anatolia Observatory (DAG) in-flange IR Derotator System" is the designed and in production process derotator system provided by OPAM to Eastern Anatolia Observatory (DAG) 4m VIS/IR telescope. IRDR, with it s field of view of 7 arcmin, is fully integrated inside the flange of the DAG telescope.
Eastern Anatolia Observatory (DAG) VIS Derotator System
"Eastern Anatolia Observatory (DAG) VIS Derotator System" is the designed and in production process derotator system provided by OPAM to Eastern Anatolia Observatory (DAG) 4m VIS/IR telescope. VISDR, with it s field of view of 20 arcmin, is designed to take place in the Seeing Limited Nasmyth platform of the DAG telescope.
Prof. Dr. Laurent Jolissaint is an engineer and a physicist and got his PhD in 2000 in astronomical instrumentation from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. After his PhD, he spent more than 6 years working for the National Research Council of Canada, then 3 years with the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands, followed by a period of 3 years as a freelance consultant for astronomical adaptive optics projects. He has been active in the telescope and adaptive optics field since 1996, and has worked for most large astronomical observatories in the world (ELT project, TMT project, KECK, Gemini, and CFHT observatories). His skills are in the optical simulation and design of telescopes and adaptive optics systems (PAOLA & OPTICA tools). He has authored many peer-reviewed papers in international optical journals, and published many projects description in SPIE proceedings. Since 2012, he his doing research in optics and teaches optics at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO, HEIG-VD), and collaborated with OPAM team on the development of optical instruments for the new 4 m Turkish telescope, DAG.
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