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Jet
Propulsion Laboratory
2003 Phase II
Durable Silver Coating for Large Aperture Optics
Surface Optics Corporation
San Diego, CA
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INNOVATION
Produced highly uniform optical quality durable silver films on large area curved surfaces
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1.5 Meter Primary Mirror for Kepler Spacecraft
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Adapted Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s mirror coating recipe to company’s large aperture coating facility
- Demonstrated optical quality durable silver coating on large curved mirrors
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COMMERCIALIZATION
- Received SBIR Phase II award from the Missile Defense Agency to adapt process to provide x-ray hard mirror coatings
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GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE
APPLICATIONS
- Mirror coating process used for primary mirror for NASA’s Kepler mission, 2008 launch
- Mirror coating process used to make mirror for Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument for India’s satellite Chandrayaan-1, 2008 launch
- Potential application in Terrestrial Planet Finder coronagraph and interferometer, also metrology and lithography
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Biomedical/Medical, Manufacturing/Fabrication, Optics
Curator: SBIR Support 1/31/08 |
