SBIR/STTR Research Award
Additive Manufacturing of Freeform Optical Elements for Imaging System Weight and Volume Reduction
Award amount
$748,459Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2018Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- ADVALUE PHOTONICS INC
- Proposal award date
- 2018-06-29
- Contract end date
- 2020-06-29
- UEI
- YHLNSLHNSXQ5
- Solicitation number
- 2017.1
- Topic code
- AF171-101
Research abstract
Freeform optics is a recent, emerging and developing field to meet the increasing demands created by the high performance and ultra-compact optical imaging systems that underpin consumer and medical applications, such as mobile phones, head mounted displays, and ultrathin endoscopes. Additive manufacturing will be an ideal method to prototype freeform optics if surface quality specifications can be realized. In this proposal, we will develop an effective and viable additive manufacturing scheme for producing freeform optical elements used in IR imaging systems with noticeably reduced component weight and volume.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Ozone Lidar Utilizing 308 nm and 355 nm Compact Fiber-Based Lasers
- Fiber-based laser transmitter at 0.95 μm band for water vapor LiDAR application
- Ozone Lidar Utilizing 308 nm and 355 nm Compact Fiber-Based Lasers
- An All-Fiber High Energy Pulsed Illuminator for Coherent Imaging
- Mid-IR Chalcogenide Amplifier by Additive Manufacturing
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Additive Manufacturing of Freeform Optical Elements for Imaging System Weight and Volume Reduction
- Additive Manufacturing of Freeform Optical Elements for Imaging System Weight and Volume Reduction
Research funding history
69 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2007–2024). Reported award amounts total $23,405,246. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Commerce