Institut national d’optique - INO

We provide industry with custom optics/photonics solutions that push the boundaries of innovation and performance. Here are a few examples of our quality control solutions.

	Assembly and Characterization of reflective microscope objectives INO boasts a host of optical measuring instruments and analysis equipment to characterize optical components and facilitate...
	Vision systems for timber grading INO has developed a vision system for Autolog designed to grade timber as it is fed through sawmill planers. The assignment...
	Anthocyanin Content Detection System (TAcy) Anthocyanin is an antioxidant found in the skin of cranberries. Concentrations of anthocyanin increase as the berries...
	Contaminant Detection Detection of contaminants in raw materials such as sunflower seeds, berries, and certain vegetables like beans, is a well-known...
	Biosensor - Microorganism Detection In Canada, the incidence of food poisoning is estimated at 2.2 million cases a year. Since most food poisoning comes from...
	Flow Cytometer According to Frost & Sullivan, the U.S. flow cytometer market is influenced by a better knowledge of diseases and the...
	Laser crack measurement system (LCMS) Prevention and rehabilitation are crucial to effective road and highway management. In order to help optimize road maintenance...
	Chemical sensor/ion-selective optical fiber You must comply with increasingly strict surveillance, continuous monitoring, and rapid diagnostic standards. Current...
	Color-Index (CI) Sensors Everyone who works in the food industry knows how difficult it can be to measure the refractive index (Brix scale) and...
	BioMimic - Optical phantoms Medical imaging instruments are calibrated using standards fabricated in a controlled way, called phantoms, in order to...
	Holographic Beam Sampler In real-time metrology of high power lasers, the most obvious requirement is the high damage threshold of the sampling...
	Grain Grading System (Canola) The current method of grading canola seeds involves visually evaluating the percentage of green seeds present in a sample...
	Laser rut measurement system (LRMS) In Quebec, summer is the season for road work. To prioritize the work being planned, INO and Ministère des Transports...
	Laser road imaging system (LRIS) We developed a laser imaging system to increase the contrast and visibility of small longitudinal and lateral road cracks...
	Optical character recognition In an ideal situation, automatic identification and tracking of vehicles and containers with standardized alphanumeric...
	Road sign detection and recognition system Québec’s Ministère des Transports (MTQ) is responsible for highway management in the province, including regular inventory...
	Compact 3D Camera (3D scanner) In the context technological development work at the Canadian Space Agency in Saint-Hubert, Quebec, we had to conduct...
	Reservoir Fill Level Sensor Conventional lidar (LIght Detection And Ranging) technology is widely used to measure the fill level of reservoirs. However...
	Airborne Infrared Application Airborne imaging is used to evaluate vegetation and soils in agricultural and forestry, and to monitor land use and the...
	Infrared Satellite Images There are an increasing number of the upcoming space missions that require thermal imaging from space, notably to study...
	CGH simulator system CFHT wanted nothing less than to bring the sky into the lab. Our optical design team was called in to design a custom...
	Fiber Laser With Programmable Amplitude Waveform Our client wanted to develop a new generation of lasers to process and repair DRAM, SRAM, and other types of memory that...
	Eyesafe Nanosecond-Pulse Fiber Lasers Our client wanted to develop a new generation of fiber lasers to conduct highly accurate telemetric measurements at a...