Company Profile

Iris AO Inc
Profile last edited on: 12/23/19      CAGE: 3FGJ3      UEI:

Business Identifier: Small-scale, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based deformable mirrors (DM) and adaptive optics systems
Year Founded
2002
First Award
2003
Latest Award
2016
Program Status
Inactive
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Location Information

2930 Shattuck Avenue #304
Berkeley, CA 94705
   (510) 849-2375
   info@irisao.com
   www.irisao.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 13
County: Alameda

Public Profile

Offering customized MEMS products and standardized Deformable mirrors, Iris AO, Inc. manufactures small scale, microelectromechanical (MEMS) based adaptive optics (AO) systems that offer radical advantages in cost, size, power consumption, durability and flexibility. Iris AO systems make AO practical for a host of new applications, including retinal and biomedical imaging, portable laser communications and horizontal imaging. The firm's manufacturing process is designed from the outset to enable large stroke, low cost, small size and scalability to meet the demands of imaging applications. In addition to the deformable mirror technology, Iris AO manufactures calibrated high-voltage high-channel-count drive electronics, AO controllers, and AO development systems. Factory calibration makes Iris AO's systems easy to operate and ready to use out of the box, dramatically reducing development time.

Extent of SBIR involvement

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Synopsis: Awardee Business Condition

Employee Range
5-9
Revenue Range
.5M-1M
VC funded?
No
Public/Private
Privately Held
Stock Info
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IP Holdings
5-9

Awards Distribution by Agency

Most Recent SBIR Projects

Year Phase Agency Total Amount
2016 1 NASA $125,000
Project Title: 1015 PTT Segment MEMS DM Development
2014 2 NSF $777,397
Project Title: Dielectric Coating of MEMS Deformable Mirrors
2014 2 NASA $875,000
Project Title: Fabrication Process and Electronics Development for Scaling Segmented MEMS DMs
2012 2 NASA $850,000
Project Title: Picometer-Resolution MEMS Segmented DM
2009 1 AF $100,000
Project Title: Wide Field-of-View Imaging Sensor System for SSA

Key People / Management

  Michael A Helmbrecht -- President

  Matt Campbell -- Co-Founder

  Nathan Doble -- Co-founder

  Matthew Hart -- Senior Optical MEMS Engineer

  Thor Juneau -- Senior Mechanical Engineer

  Carl Kempf -- Principal Investigator

  Cliff Knollenberg -- Co-Founder

  Paul M Work -- Interim COO

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