SBIR/STTR Research Award
Optical Additive Manufacturing in the MWIR and LWIR Bands
Award amount
$981,450Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2024Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- IRFLEX CORP
- Proposal award date
- 2024-08-01
- Contract end date
- 2027-02-01
- UEI
- YGEHLWEBR1F8
- Solicitation number
- 23.1
- Topic code
- N231-011
Research abstract
The proposed Phase II technical effort will develop a novel Additive Manufacturing (AM) process to deposit optical materials transparent in the mid-wave infrared (MWIR) and long-wave infrared (LWIR) for the manufacturing and the refurbishment of optical imaging components.Ā The MWIR-LWIR AM laser deposition process shall be able to safely deposit hazardous MWIR and LWIR optical materials on existing infrared transmitting substrate within the desired infrared transmission band, and produce high-quality optics with good optical properties, full densification, and good surface quality (such as lambda/10) with minimal or no post-processing.
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.
- Optical Fiber Combiner for Combining MWIR QCL Beams
- AM by Laser-assisted Nanoparticle Deposition (AMLAND) for Metalens
- Optical Fiber Combiner for Combining MWIR QCL Beams
- Optical Additive Manufacturing in Mid-Wave and Long-Wave Infrared Bands
- Anti-Reflective Surface for Infrared Optical Fiber Endfaces
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Additive Manufacture of Thermal Infrared Optical Materials
- Additive Manufacture of Thermal Infrared Optics
Research funding history
34 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2006–2025). Reported award amounts total $14,872,663. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense