Can You See It Now?

How do you bring technologies for the James Webb Space Telescope, exploration of Mars and the search for extrasolar planets, down to Earth? Put them in everyday products to benefit us Earthlings!

The NASA Goddard Flight Center, creator of marvelous and advanced optical technologies, is keenly focused on transferring its advanced wave front sensing, and related optical processing technologies, to the private sector. In 2011, that commitment has risen to a new level – the Can You See It Now? Campaign.

Beginning in May, with the CLEO conference, continuing thru August with SPIE Optics & Photonics 2011, and cumulating with Industry Day at Goddard in October, NASA will be introducing it’s entire suite of advanced wavefront sensing technologies, procedures, and lab equipment to private industry. This unprecedented campaign has just one focus – enable firms to dig thru NASA’s treasure chest of innovative technologies to find ways to create exciting new products for consumers and industry.

Markets

The portfolios of synergistic, complementary adaptive optic technologies for a host of industrial, commercial, defense and science applications are available for license from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Under Space Act agreements, leading Goddard engineers can support technology adaptation and product integration for a host of commercial and government applications.

See below for just a few of the potential market applications that these technologies address.

• Advanced Cameras
• Astronomy
• Laser Communications
• Metrology
• Ocular Imaging

Technologies Available for License

For information on technologies available for creating solutions using adaptive optics and related optical technologies in variety of applications, please see the following technologies:

Wavefront Detection Algorithms

NTR	Technology Title	Ocular Imaging	Metrology	Advanced Cameras	Laser Communications	Astronomy
14879	Iterative-Transform Phase-Retrieval Utilizing Adaptive Diversity	x	x
14899	Broadband Phase-Retrieval For Image-Based Wavefront Sensing	x	x			x
14900	Filter Function For Wavefront Sensing & Control Over An Extended Field Of View	x	x	x	x	x
15208	Direct Solve Image Based Wavefront Sensing	x	x	x		x
15464	PseudoDiversity - Direct Wavefront Control and Image Restoration at High Bandwidth	x	x	x	x	x
15693	Variable Sampling Mapping: A novel supplement to iterative-transform phase retrieval algorithms for undersampled images, broadband illumination, and noisy detection environments	x	x	x	x	x

System Operating Software

NTR	Technology Title	Ocular Imaging	Metrology	Advanced Cameras	Laser Communications	Astronomy
14725	Wavefront Sensing and Optical Control Software	x	x	x	x	x
14982	Alignment Insensitive Active Control-of-Curvature Wavefront Sensing and Control Architecture				x	x
15758	Hybrid Architecture Active WFS					x
16195	Null Diversity for Coronagraphy		x			x
16196	Software Suite for Modeling and Simulation of Shaped External Occulters		x	x		x

Lenses, Gratings, Mirrors & Masks

NTR	Technology Title	Ocular Imaging	Metrology	Advanced Cameras	Laser Communications	Astronomy
14901	Fixed Lens Wavefront Sensing	x		x	x	x
15679	Adaptable gratings with wavefront transformation functionality		x
15675	Objective Lens Simultaneously Optimized for Pupil Ghosting					x
15680	Focusing diffraction gratings element with advanced aberration control and wavefront transformation properties		x			x
16008	Phase controlled magnetic mirror for wavefront correction	x		x	x	x
16143	Simultaneous Amplitude and Wavefront Control with MEMS Deformable Mirror and Spatial Filter Array		x	x	x	x
16162	Imaging System Aperture Masks for Image Plane Exit Pupil Characterization		x	x	x	x

System Design Simulation & Testing Tools

NTR	Technology Title	Ocular Imaging	Metrology	Advanced Cameras	Laser Communications	Astronomy
15138	Matlab-OSLO Toolkit	x	x	x	x	x
15151	Matlab-Zemax Toolkit	x	x	x	x	x
15399	James Webb Space Telescope(JWST)Wavefront Sensing Software		x	x	x	x
15567	Wavefront Control and Optimization Toolbox	x	x	x	x	x
15676	Computer Generated Hologram System for Wavefront Measurement System Calibration	x	x	x	x	x
15926	Wavefront Sensing Analysis of Grazing Incidence Optical Systems					x
16164	Null Control Breadboard	x	x