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Lumotive Sees Investment; Kopin Restructures Via Partial Unit Spinout: Week in Brief 01/06/23
SEATTLE, Jan. 6, 2023 — Sensor technology company Lumotive secured additional funding from new investors USAA and Uniquest in a $13 million round of strategic funding led by Samsung Ventures, bringing the total amount raised to date to more than $56 million. Lumotive will use the funding to accelerate the development and customer delivery of optical semiconductor devices for the next generation of lidar technology. Lumotive’s Light Control Metasurface beam steering chips. Courtesy of
Adaptive Optics Look Farther Than Ever Before
Mar 28, 2018 — Decades after the Cold War ended, technology developed for the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative (“Star Wars”) missile defense program continues to be of use, emerging in fields ranging from space communication and exploration to brain...
Boston Micromachines Awarded NASA Contract for Telescope Mirrors
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 3, 2016 — Boston Micromachines Corp. has been awarded a contract through NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) to develop deformable mirror technology for next-generation, space-based telescopes. The two-year, $750,000 Phase II...
Laser Mirror Counteracts Deformation
JENA, Germany, May 15, 2014 — When photons push against mirrors inside laser cavities, the mirrors get deformed. But scientists now have a way to push back. A ceramic mirror in development by the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering and Ilmenau...
Boston Micromachines Awarded Contract
Aug 1, 2012 — Boston Micromachines Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., has received a $750,000 Phase II NASA Small Business Innovation Research contract to support NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration program. The company produces deformable mirrors based on...
Boston Micromachines Awarded Space Imaging Grant
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 7, 2012 — After the successful completion of its Phase I project, the adaptive optics company received a $750,000 Phase II NASA SBIR contract to support NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration program.
Boston Micromachines, Bridger Photonics Sign Consulting Deal
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 8, 2010 — Boston Micromachines Corp. (BMC) announced Monday that it has signed a consulting agreement with Bridger Photonics Inc. to quantitatively assess a new MEMS membrane deformable mirror (DM) design using BMC’s facilities. “We recognized...
Controlling a deformable mirror with light
SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France – Adaptive optics are likely to get a boost through new technology using light instead of electricity to control a deformable mirror (DM) that comes with a continuous membrane rather than segmented pixels. The technology, developed at Institut...
Holograms lighten the payload of unmanned aerial vehicles
ARLINGTON, Va. – US Air Force scientists have devised a way to make un-manned aerial vehicles (UAVs) better eyes in the sky, besides making them lighter and more efficient. Also known as drones or pilotless aircraft, UAVs increasingly are being used for...
Phase I Projects
Mar 18, 2010 — Boston Micromachines Corp. of Cambridge, Mass, a microelectromechanical systems-based deformable mirror provider, has received two Phase I contracts totaling about $200,000 from NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research Program to further space...
NASA Taps Boston Micromachines
Jan 7, 2010 — Boston Micromachines Corp., provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror (DM) products for adaptive optics systems, announced that it has been selected by NASA for two Phase 1 contracts. NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) awarded...
Wish upon a star
MUNICH, Germany, and MONTREAL – When searching outer space for sharp images of remote stars, large-scale astronomical telescopes employ adaptive optics to actively compensate for atmospheric disturbances. However, these devices need control mechanisms in the form of “guide stars,”...
Boston Micromachines Awarded $750K NEI Grant
Oct 29, 2007 — Boston Micromachines Corp. (BMC) of Watertown, Mass., a provider of microelectromechanical (MEMS)-based mirror products for adaptive optics systems, announced that it has been awarded a $750,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)...
US Military Awards Boston Company $100,000
Nov 1, 2006 — Via its Small Business Technology Transfer program, the US Department of Defense has awarded approximately $100,000 to Boston Micromachines Corp. of Watertown, Mass., to develop better communications on the battlefield. The company, in conjunction...
Phase I Small Business Awards Announced
Jan 1, 2006 — NASA recently awarded Phase I contracts to 251 small businesses through the 2005 Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs. The research program encourages technological innovation among small businesses...
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Dec 8, 2005 — Santa Clara, Calif.-based Landrex Technologies Inc., the maker of Optima PCB (printed circuit board) assembly automated optical inspection equipment, has named Ascentech as its sales representative in New England. Ascentech, of Essex, Conn.,...
Adaptive Optics Exposes Visual Defects
Jun 14, 2004 — ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 14 -- Adaptive optics, originally developed to help astronomers see more clearly through the Earth's atmosphere, has enabled researchers at the University of Rochester to discover that as many as a third of the light-detecting...
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