Membrane Optic Imager Real-Time Exploitation (MOIRE)
Abstract
The Membrane Optic Imager Real-Time Exploitation (MOIRE) program enabled the technology for very large aperture optics for space platforms. MOIRE's diffractive optics significantly reduced the optical tolerances required to create images, enabling very large optical elements to be created. MOIRE demonstrated the manufacturability of large membranes, large structures to hold the optics tight and flat, and also demonstrate the secondary optical elements needed to turn a diffractive optic (such as fresnel zone plate) into a wide bandwidth imaging device. MOIRE ended with a technology demonstration that significantly reduces the risk of using these types of optics for flight development. The anticipated transition partner is the Air Force.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2013
- Source ID
- cd41217d90dc0ddf5700cb8204a82237