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Description
The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE) is a planned cubic-kilometre-scale Cherenkov neutrino telescope to be deployed off the west coast of Canada, designed to detect high-energy neutrinos, from TeV to PeV energy scales, from astrophysical sources. The first string will be deployed later this year, with the full detector planned to be operational within the decade. P-ONE will join a growing network of neutrino telescopes scattered across the world, pushing us into a new era of high-energy neutrino astronomy. This talk presents the design and novel hardware of the P-ONE optical modules, with context on the broader physics case and deployment status. The ocean setting of the experiment necessitates precise calibration systems, including acoustic positioning system and optical calibration units, which these optical modules allow us to do, along with detection of Cherenkov light.