Photonics News: Week in Brief: 08/20/21

BALTIMORE — Pixelligent and the University of Massachusetts Amherst were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to support their collaborative project titled “Research Partnership for Scalable Metalens Fabrication.” The grant, worth $548,305, will support the collaborators’ effort to show that high-efficiency metalenses with refractive indices as high as 2.10 can be fabricated at commercial scale using efficient nanoimprint processes and equipment. MELBOURNE, Fla. — The U.S. Special Operations Command awarded L3Harris Technologies a five-year, $96 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract to procure WESCAM MX electro-optical, infrared, and laser designator sensor suites and...