October 2007
San Diego Fires close SOC Facility 10/22-10/27/07
August 2007
SOC Completes Coating of NASA's Kepler Space Telescope's Primary Mirror.
To learn more about the NASA's Kepler Mission click here and to see pictures of SOC's work click here
July, 2007
SOC Awarded Phase 2 Navy SBIR for Development of miniature, hyperspectral imaging digital cameraMarch 2006
Surface Optics delivers to the Naval Air Systems Command ten SOC 410 DHR Reflectometers for the inspection of coatings on advanced aircraft.
2005
Real-time MWIR Hyperspectral Camera delivered to the US Government.
September 2004
Surface Optics is awarded by the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR-4.1.8) a contract to manufacture the SOC 410 Directional Hemispherical Reflectometers to be used for inspection of coatings on advanced aircraft. The contract is a Phase III SBIR.
May 2004
Surface Optics delivers to the Naval Air Systems Command two prototypes of the SOC 410 Hand Held Reflectometer.
2004
SOC delivers its first DuoChrome (SWIR/MWIR) multispectral sensor. This camera becomes a baseline sensor for military threat warning systems.
Surface Optics awarded a Phase III SBIR for production of a Hand-held Reflectometer (SOC-410) to be used for acceptance tests on naval aircraft.
Also in 2003
SOC Leases additional facilities for instrument manufacturing and implements ISO-9000 quality assurance program.
July, 2003
SOC at Siggraph 2003
Measured BRDF in Film Production - Realistic Cloth Appearance for “The Matrix Reloaded”
George Borshukov
ESC Entertainment
June, 2003
Surface Optics and ARDEC receive 2003 Army SBIR Phase II Quality Award for Hyperspectral Data Fusion ResearchMay, 2003
Air Force Research Lab Success Story
Hand-held Directional Reflectometer Provides First of Its Kind In-Situ Full Characterization of Infrared Material PropertiesThe Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Nondestructive Evaluation Branch, in collaboration with Surface Optics Corporation and Boeing Defense and Space Group, have developed an accurate nondestructive evaluation method to inspect special coatings used on modern Air Force weapon systems.
Read more about SOC's Hand-held Directional Reflectometer Here
April, 2003
Surface Optics goes Hollywood in the Matrix Reloaded
How deep did the rabbit hole go? A cast of each actor's head was sent to a company called Arius 3D, makers of ultrahigh-resolution scanners employed in 1999 to archive the works of Michelangelo. The Arius scanner is accurate down to 25 microns - the diameter of a mold spore. To get the clothing simulations just right, ESC sent swatches of Reeves' black cassock and Weaving's jacket to a company called Surface Optics, which builds devices to measure a property of light called the bidirectional reflectance distribution function. Surface Optics happened to have one machine on hand scheduled to ship to Lockheed Martin a month later, where it was to be assigned to its usual task: evaluating the reflectivity of paint on stealth bombersTo see the instrument used, click on the link below
For a full reprint of the article, click on the link below
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/matrix2_pr.html
Go to the official Matrix Reloaded website
December, 2002
November, 2002
SBIR Award : Extremely Uniform, Very Low Absorption Coatings for Large Aperature Optics
SBIR Award : Optical Monitoring of VLA Coating Process Using HyperSpectral Imaging
Surface Optics is awarded by the US NAVY a Phase II SBIR contract: “Portable Emissivity/Reflectometer for Measurements on Curved Surfaces”.
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