Cooperative Agreement 70NANB24H066
- Cooperative Agreement Summary HighRi Optics, Inc. received a $399,858.96 Cooperative Agreement from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620), effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027. The Phase II award funds the development of a commercial product that enables precise calibration of high-performance imaging systems and incorporates specialized data reconstruction software to...
- This $350,000 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), funds research at Purdue University from October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2028. The project delivers advanced wavefront estimation techniques utilizing neural mapping frameworks designed to enable single-image wavefront recovery for long-range imaging systems. The primary products include theoretical foundations...
- This Project Grant award, valued at $400,000, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The award supports the development of innovative "snapshot computational imaging" systems that leverage recent advances in metaoptics, or optical devices using sub-wavelength nano-structures, to capture multidimensional information about light interactions with the world. The key objectives of this...
- This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of a new optical microscopy technology called "Space-Time-Pulsed Engineered-Excitation for Diffraction-Free Imaging (SPEEDI)." The technology utilizes exotic space-time wave packets to enable high-resolution fluorescence imaging of deep brain tissue without the light scrambling issues of conventional microscopy. The research aims to advance imaging...
- This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, with a performance period from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027, will support research at Purdue University to develop a novel "Angular Encoded Imaging" solution that can overcome the diffraction limit in imaging systems without manipulating the illumination. The project aims to establish the theoretical and computational foundations of...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $457,500 to Trustees of Boston University from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The funding supports research to develop new classes of photodetectors based on metasurface nanophotonics technology. This aims to enable advanced computational imaging capabilities beyond traditional sensors, such as producing focused...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded Trustees of Boston University $508,446 on October 1, 2026, for development of phase and polarization imaging meta-sensor arrays under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The project will design, fabricate, and characterize metasurfaces—specially engineered dielectric coatings that introduce sharp dependence of responsivity on illumination angle and polarization at visible wavelengths. These...
- This STTR Phase I grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program supports the development of a compact, multi-wavelength interferometric system for real-time, in-situ metrology in high-precision optical manufacturing. The $274,524 project aims to deliver a market-ready, on-machine metrology system that can improve efficiency and accuracy in diamond tool alignment, surface metrology, and overall manufacturing throughput by...
- This $100,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will fund the development of blood-mimicking phantoms for assessing oximetry performance of photoacoustic imaging systems. Specifically, the University of California, San Diego will create specialized plastic objects that mimic human tissue with varying levels of oxygenation. These objects will be used to calibrate and standardize photoacoustic imaging equipment by having...
- The National Science Foundation awarded LR Innovoptics Inc. $305,000 on October 1, 2025, under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a high-throughput 3D printing system for manufacturing precision glass micro-optics using advanced two-photon polymerization (TPP) technology. The project addresses scalability and cost constraints in traditional glass micro-optics fabrication by optimizing TPP printing parameters to achieve high optical quality,...
PURPOSE: HIGHERRI OPTICS, INC PROJECT IS DIVIDED IN TWO COMPONENTS. FIRST, DEVELOP A QUANTITATIVE CALIBRATION OF ANY HIGH-PERFORMANCE IMAGING SYSTEM AND, SECOND, IMAGE PROCESSING TO MITIGATE THE IMAGING IMPERFECTIONS AND REALIZE A TRUE IMAGE OF THE OBJECT UNDER INVESTIGATION THUS IMPROVING THE RESOLUTION LIMIT OF PRACTICALLY ANY IMAGING SYSTEM.ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED: DURING PHASE I, A CALIBRATION TEST STANDARD WILL BE DEVELOPED SPECIALLY DESIGNED TO POSSESS A CONSTANT INHERENT POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY (PSD) AND DATA PROCESSING ALGORITHM FOR IMAGE CONTRAST RECONSTRUCTION.EXPECTED OUTCOMES: TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT UNDER THIS PHASE I WILL BE TO UNDERSTAND THE REAL PERFORMANCE CHALLENGES OF AN IMAGING SYSTEM AND DEVELOP METHODS AND TECHNIQUES FOR IMAGE PROCESSING TO INCREASE THE DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE OF THE EXTRACTED INFORMATION.INTENDED BENEFICIARIES: THE AWARDEES INTENDED BENEFICIARIES ARE ANY FIELDS THAT TODAY RELY UPON IMAGING SYSTEMS, INCLUDING MEDICINE, SCIENCE, MANUFACTURING, AND DEFENSE.SUBRECIPIENT ACTIVITIES: THE PROJECT WILL BE LED IN COLLABORATION WITH TWO SUBCONTRACTORS WITH STATE OF THE ART FACILITIES FOR IMAGE CHARACTERIZATION.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | ($3k) | 2/10/25 | ||
| Not listed | $100.0k | 5/15/24 |