SBIR/STTR Research Award
Improved Volume Hologram Optical Elements (VMAN)
Award amount
$79,824Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2016Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Luminit LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2016-09-22
- Contract end date
- 2017-03-30
- UEI
- QBKEHJKH4L16
- Solicitation number
- 2016.2
- Topic code
- N162-103
Research abstract
To address the Navys need for of improved volume holographic optical element (HOE) manufacturing for thin and light lens components, Luminit, LLC proposes to develop a new Volume-HOE MANufacturing (VMAN) system with analog and digital wave front control for improved off-axis aberration performance. This design is based on Luminits decades of experience with HOE development and prototyping. The innovative use of analog pre aberration techniques and digital diffractive optical elements for wave front conditioning allow to obtain good intra-element and element-to-element uniformity and repeatability, and improved off-axis aberration optical performance. As a result, VMAN offers manufacturing grade production of volume HOEs for imaging and non-imaging applications. In Phase I, Luminit will demonstrate the feasibility of VMAN by building a manual manufacturing prototype at TRL 5. In Phase II, Luminit, LLC plans to further develop the prototype of Phase I to TRL 7 by introducing automation.
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.
- Wave-Optic Propagation Computation Enabled by Machine Learning Algorithms (WOPA)
- Concrete Materials Characterization (COMAC)
- Uniform Diffuser Composed of Cascaded CGHs (UNIC)
- Holographic Projection Laser Marking System (HoloMark)
- Compound Eye Laser Missile Seeker (CELMS)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Improved Volume Hologram Optical Elements
- High efficiency uniform nonplanar holographic optical elements in photo-thermo-refractive glass
- Volume Hologram Optical Elements
- Investigation of the Manufacturing Process for Volume Holographic Optical Element Arrays
Research funding history
62 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2006–2019). Reported award amounts total $12,345,133. 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, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation