Design & Development

The next phase of our development process, an Engineering team will be assigned to the project lead by a Project Engineer that will carry the project through to production. Depending on the design requirements, each of the Engineering disciplines (optical, mechanical and electrical) will be added to the team.

The goal of the team is to design and develop a functional prototype that meets an agreed upon target specification. The other two main objectives are to bring the design to market on time and within budget.

The outcome of the development process is the delivery of a fully tested prototype that meets agreed upon specifications.

The work will include all or portions of the following:

  • Optical modeling and fabrication
  • Thermal modeling and fabrication
  • Mechanical design and fabrication
  • Electrical design and fabrication
  • Testing: optical, mechanical, electrical and reliability testing
  • Customer testing and feedback
  • Final engineering
  • Final cost analysis and quote

In-house equipment includes:

Software

  • Optical simulation and design
    • Light Tools
    • TracePro
    • Zemax
  • Thermal Modeling using finite-element analysis
    • CFDesign
    • ProMechanica
  • Mechanical CAD design
    • AutoCAD
    • Autodesk Inventor
    • Pro/Engineer
    • SolidWorks
    • Rhinoceros
  • Data acquisition and experiment automation
    • National Instruments LabView

Test and measurement equipment

  • Electronics
    • Data acquisition (Hewlett Packard)
    • Oscilloscopes, analog and digital (Tektronix)
    • Digital multimeters (Agilent, Fluke)
    • Bench power supplies, up to 600 volts and 10 amps (HP, Xantrex, and others)
    • Pulse generator (Hewlett Packard)
    • LCR meter (Stanford Research)
    • Curve tracer (Tektronix)
    • Hi pot tester (Instek)
  • Radiometry and photometry
    • Goniometer light range, automated, 360° azimuth and 90° elevation
    • Spectroradiometers 200nm - 1100nm (Instrument Systems)
    • Photometers (UDT and International Light)
    • LED spectro-goniometer (LabSphere)
    • Integrating spheres, (UDT, Instrument Systems)
    • Spectrometer (Ocean Optics)
    • Sensor heads and fiber-optic detectors (UDT, International Light, Instrument Systems)
    • Photonic filters, neutral density filters, cosine diffusers
    • CIE Illuminance detector (Instrument Systems)
    • LED mounts (LabSphere and Instrument Systems)
  • Temperature
    • Thermocouple and thermistor meters (Extech, Jenco)
    • Custom-built junction temperature pulse measurement system
  • Dimensional metrology
    • CMM (Brown and Sharpe)
    • Optical comparator with video (MicroVu)