SBIR-STTR Award

This effort joins the MEMS-based deformable mirror technology available from AgilOptics, a New Mexico small business, with the aero-optics technology of the University of Notre Dame to develop an Aero-optics Simulator. This simulator will develop a library of aero-optics patterns to simulate atmospheric distortions for test and evaluation of military or commercial beam control systems.

Keywords:
Adaptive Optics, Aero-Optics, Simulator, Active Optics, Mems Optics, Deformable Mirrors, Membrane Deformable Mirrors, Optical Simulators, Wind Tunnels

AgilOptics and the University of Notre Dame are collaborating to develop and commercialize an aero-optics disturbance simulator. Wavefront temporal data will be collected on various wind tunnel configurations that are applicable to transmitting light beams from aircraft. These time histories of the optical path distortions will be recorded and re-played through a membrane deformable mirror, driver and microprocessor set.

Keywords:
Deformable Mirrors, Beam Control, Aero-Optics, Adaptive Optics, Membrane Deformable Mirrors, Shear L