SBIR/STTR Research Award
Corrective Optics Manufacturing for Aerodynamic Infrared Domes and Conformal Sensor Windows
Award amount
$78,855Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2013Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- OPTIMAX SYSTEMS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2013-09-30
- Contract end date
- 2014-04-01
- UEI
- D2FSKN8TUFK7
- Solicitation number
- 2013.2
- Topic code
- N132-124
Research abstract
Previous work at Optimax has demonstrated capability to manufacture geometrically complex freeform optics through further developments in sub-aperture polishing. Furthermore, the novel Optimax VIBE smoothing process finished optics, composed of polycrystalline ceramics, to a very fine surface roughness (~1-2nm RMS) without grain highlighting and preferential removal. This proposal builds off previous successes by extending figure correction to more complex geometries, eliminating grain highlighting on freeform shapes, and reducing cost and time of manufacturing polycrystalline ceramic freeform optics.
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.
- Super Polished Coronagraph Mirrors
- Advanced Manufacturing and Smoothing of X-Ray Mirrors, Phase II
- Advanced Manufacturing and Smoothing of X-Ray Mirrors
- Improved Curved Transparent Ceramic Structural Components
- Additive Manufacturing and Thin Film Coating Development for Lightweight Directed Energy Reflective Optics
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Corrective Optics Manufacturing for Aerodynamic Infrared Domes and Conformal Sensor Windows
- Scanning SCOTS Measurements for Corrective Optics
- Corrective Optics Manufacturing for Aerodynamic Infrared Domes and Conformal Sensor Windows
- Scanning SCOTS Measurements for Corrective Optics
- Corrective Optics Manufacturing for Aerodynamic Infrared Domes and Conformal Sensor Windows
Research funding history
43 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2008–2025). Reported award amounts total $16,061,855. 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 Homeland Security