Services
Lens Design
Brandywine’s specialty is the design and fabrication of hyperspectral imaging sensors, and their associated fore-optics. Merging state-of-the-art software tools with our application-specific library of lens prescriptions, Brandywine formulates an integrated solution tuned toward solving your problem from fore-optics (telescope, lens or fiber array), to order-blocking filter and camera. We use the industry standard Zemax program for lens design optimization, and FRED for our illumination and stray light analysis.
Optical system engineering
Most end-users are not interested in MTF, stray light analysis, or distortion, rather want to know: “Will this work according to these system metrics, with this algorithm?” To answer this question Brandywine is developing a new tool called the Scene-based Sensor ModelTM. The two key attributes of the SBSM is that for a set of truth scenes, you will not be able to tell if the data is coming from the as-built sensor, or the simulation. Targets and backgrounds move and change, with noise and intensity variations, just as in a real scene. The second attribute is that the model is written in commercially available software, thus is easily updated or changed. With this information, the customer can:- Simulate as-built performance for algorithm development
- Make informed decisions about system trades
- Test calibration procedures
- Fine tune Concept-of-Operations prior to deployment
- More rapidly debug system artifacts
- Show the end-customer how the system performs (detection vs. false alarms, or sensitivity)
Other services include on-site installation, aircraft installations, and other associated field support.