SBIR-STTR Award

Manufacture of Monolithic Telescope with a Freeform Surface
Award last edited on: 2/6/2023

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
DOD : MDA
Total Award Amount
$2,348,118
Award Phase
2
Solicitation Topic Code
S2.04
Principal Investigator
Brian Myer

Company Information

Optimax Systems Inc

6367 Dean Parkway
Ontario, NY 14519
   (585) 265-1020
   tkelly@optimaxsi.com
   www.optimaxsi.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 24
County: Wayne

Phase I

Contract Number: NNX15CG20P
Start Date: 6/17/2015    Completed: 12/17/2015
Phase I year
2015
Phase I Amount
$124,844
Monolithic freeform telescopes offer the potential to positively address the size, weight and vibration concerns associated with flight telescope systems. We propose to prove feasibility that our optics manufacturing process is capable of producing of a freeform optical telescope system by manufacturing and testing four optical surfaces on four sides of a single high purity optical material. The resulting working monolithic telescope will include a high precision freeform surface. The capability of in adding of a freeform surface in a monolithic optical telescope design offers flexibility to create more compact designs, larger fields of view, and better-performing unobscured systems.

Phase II

Contract Number: NNX16CG18C
Start Date: 4/25/2016    Completed: 4/24/2018
Phase II year
2016
(last award dollars: 2020)
Phase II Amount
$2,223,274

Monolithic freeform telescopes offer the potential to positively address the size, weight and vibration concerns associated with flight telescope systems. We propose to prove feasibility that our optics manufacturing process is capable of producing of a freeform optical telescope system by manufacturing and testing five optical surfaces on five sides of a single high purity optical material. The resulting working monolithic telescope will include a high precision freeform surface. The capability of in adding of a freeform surface in a monolithic optical telescope design offers flexibility to create more compact designs, larger fields of view, and better-performing unobscured systems.