These freeform gradient optical corrector plates?and related gradient-index (GRIN) optics?will be useful for small-scale satellites (known as nanosats), for multi-freeform-mirror optic paths in satellites such as the Coastal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics Imager (COEDI), for optical subsystems for the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) including the operational wide-field telescope, the integral field spectrograph, and the coronagraph, and for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) optical simulator (OSIM) wavefront sensors.
Commercial and defense applications include ophthalmic lenses, weapon-firing control optics, optical laser-sighting systems, binoculars, borescopes, interferometers, microscopes, telescopes, camera lenses (including cell-phone camera lenses, a growing segment), solar concentrator, window anti-reflection coatings, and lensed encapsulants for LEDs and white lighting.
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