Company Overview

Mission

INO is a world class center of expertise in optics and photonics that assists companies in improving their competitive edge and developping their business. It conducts research and development on state-of-the-art technology and products that strengthen the country's economy. INO ensures its growth by creating intellectual property and drawing value from it through research and development contracts, prototype production, technology transfer, and the promotion of innovative projects that creates jobs.

Field of Activities

INO maintains and develops a high level of knowledge and expertise in 34 photonic sub-technologies grouped into 10 main technologies and organized in three broad sectors: Microoptics and Microsystems Photonics, Fibers and Lasers and Applied Optical Systems. Its achievements have found applications in the following areas: aerospace, biomedicine, the environment, forestry, industrial processes, transportation, telecommunications, security, and defense. They are put to use in quality control, industrial process monitoring, remote sensing, surveillance, medical diagnosis, telecommunications, object and pattern recognition, night vision, inspection, and analysis. INO stands at the forefront of technology, ready to fulfil industrys needs. To help sustain its scientific research and activities, INO provides computer support, a team of optical and optomechanical engineers and designers, and engineering and electronics workshops. The scientific team has access to the latest in equipment. INO labs include preform fabrication facilities, two fiber drawing towers, and state-of-the-art clean rooms. These facilities are grouped together in a single building 17, 300 m2 in size. INO keeps itself on the technological cutting edge to meet industry needs.

Products and Services

INO has turned its advanced knowledge of physics to good use in the field of light technology. With its cutting-edge equipment and facilities, INO can provide complete integrated services ranging from the design of laser and vision systems to feasibility studies, new concept demonstration, and development of experimental models. INO also offers design, pre-production, and small-scale production of advanced optics systems as well as the design, characterization, and evaluation of components and equipment. INOs know-how and expertise are what set it apart from other research organizations.

INO conducts research, designs and manufactures products and prototypes to customer specifications, and offers small-scale industrial production services. It also designs and manufactures optical devices and components such as graded reflectivity mirrors, diffractive optical elements, and bolometric detectors for use in more complex systems. INO is also the biggest specialty optical fiber manufacturer in Canada and ranks among the leading suppliers in the world.

INO offers state-of-the-art solutions in optical design and testing, diffractive optics, optoelectronic micromanufacturing, metrology, thin films, guided-wave optics, new laser sources, laser applications, optical and digital information processing, artificial vision. INO also designs and manufactures specialty optical fibers for R & D, custom designed optical components, laser systems, telecommunication systems and devices, fiber- optic sensors, vision systems for quality and process control.

Company Information

Additional Details

Legal Name: Institut national d'optique

Number of Employees: 205

Contacts

Services

• Automatic Target Recognition, Parallel Processing
• Environmental Testing

  Thermal cycles, vibration, shocks

• List Of Products And Services

  A leader in optics and photonics R & D, INO specializes in:

  Design and fabrication of optical systems, laser systems and vision systems;

  Feasibility studies;

  New concept demonstration;

  Experimental model development;

  Design and prototyping of advanced optical systems and their fabrication in short runs;

  Design, characterization and evaluation of components and equipment.

  The systems that INO develops are used in a variety of applications, such as quality control, industrial process control, detection, remote sensing, medical diagnosis, telecommunications, object and pattern recognition, inspection and analysis.

  Furthermore, INO designs, manufactures and markets high- technology products and devices for customers in Canada and abroad. INO is among the worlds main suppliers of specialty optical fibers. It designs, manufactures and markets different types of fibers as well as devices integrating optical fiber that find applications in telecommunications. INO also possesses the know-how, skills and facilities to develop diffractive optical elements and micro-optic components for applications in telecommunications, robotics and biomedicine.

• Micro-machining
• Object And Pattern Recognition
• Optical Design

  INO has a team of optical design specialists offering services from consulation to complex optical and mechanical design, fabrication and testing.

• Range Sensing

Products

• 3-d Imagery
• Active Sensing - Active Imagery
• Amplifier, Fiber Optic
• Bolometers

  INO markets uncooled infrared bolometric detectors.

• Composite, Fiber
• Does

  Diffractive optical elements.

• Fiber Optic, Special
• Fibre Amplifier

  For telecom applications

• Fibre Lasers

  NOI custom manufacturers fibre lasers (pulsed and tunable).

• Filter, Acoustic/Fiber Optic
• Grm
• Hybrid Parallel Information-processing Systems (optics/Electronics)

  INO develops hybrid parallel information-processing systems (optics/electronics) to be used in designing high-speed image processing and pattern recognition systems, among others.

• Laser Ranging
• Master Detector, Infrared
• Micro Mirror, Ditital
• Mirror, Variable Reflection
• Ocr System

  INO has developed an OCR system composed of three modules: the preprocessing module, whose main function is to clean images and isolate areas of interest; the OCR module, which classifies the symbols it receives; and the ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition) module, which is customized for each specific application and contains a set or rules that define the syntax of the codes to be identified.

• Optical Correlator

  Artificial vision system

• Optical Fibers

  Graded reflectivity mirror to enhanse laser performance.

• Sensor, Surveillance
• Sensor, Vapor Solvents
• Specialty Optical Fiber

  Specialty optical fibers go into the fabrication of fiber lasers and fiber amplifiers

• Spectrometer, Miniature

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