VOXTEL, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N171-038
VOXTEL, INC. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $146,981
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- N171-038
- Solicitation
- 2017.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- OR
- Period
- 2017-09-19 → 2019-03-05
Description
To address the need for 1-m^2, scaled, cost-effective hogel optics, scalable inkjet-print additive manufacturing of three-dimensional freeform gradient-index nanocomposite hogel optics will be demonstrated. Using inkjet-print manufacturing, a series of prototype diffraction-limited achromatic gradient-index lensletssized from 100 microns to 3 mm, and configured in gradient-index hogel arrays up to 125-mm in formatwill be designed, modeled, fabricated, characterized, and shown to have properties superior to the current refractive microlens hogel optics. It will be shown that large-format diffraction-limited achromatic lenslet arrays can be rapidly designed, printed, and delivered, at a small fraction of the cost of existing approaches.