The following are typical clients for our services:

Medical           Aerospace        Education         Entertainment         Lighting

Surveillance and security         Computer         Measurement systems

Manufacturing      Research Labs       Toys      Displays

 

CDA has served a wide variety of organizations such as Abbott Labs, Diagnostic Products Corp., Polaroid, Boehringer-Mannheim Corp., Hycel, Poly-Optical Products, Moog, Energy Conversion Devices, Baxter, Allergan, Corning Glass, BD Research, Edwards Life Science, Unisys Corporation, Rockwell, Pioneer, Eaton, Device Lab, Source Scientific, Pentad Design Corp., Pioneer, Morgan Construction Co, Lifespex Inc, Voyage Medical, and many others.

 

Concept  Development and Feasibility Analysis

Surveillance systems.

Fiber optics displacement encoder.

IR safety systems for machines.

Device for optimizing the sight of those with Macular Degeneration

Device to read and write a GByte of information on a small smart card.

Reader for small particles use for anti-counterfeiting applications.

High speed, high resolution inspection for semiconductors.

Higher speed medical diagnostics

IR sensor for determining fraction of water in crude oil

Optical inspection for rapid sub-micron semiconductor inspection

Fiber-light pipe laser delivery catheter system

Alcohol sensor sensitivity

Optical functional testing for electronic toothbrushes

Laser delivery system for heart procedure

Laser surgery systems.

New rotary encoder approach

Power delivery from LEDs via fiber optics

Power delivery from IR laser via fiber optics

Simplified diagnostic device with integral window

Commercial medical device  that did fluorescent lifetime measurements with low-costcomponents

New optical approach for smoke alarm

Commercial fluorescence lifetime medical application

Virtual reality display for MRI application

 

 

Concept Demonstration

Optical system for detection of fluorescence from a laser-excited biological sample.

Automatic reader for very small particle identification and classification.

Fiber optics sensor system for monitoring optical coatings.

Star locator teaching tool for astronomy.

Periscope for remotely viewing turbine blades in a cogeneration facility.

Optical system for fluorescence imaging used for cancer detection.

Fertility microscope.

Semiconductor wafer methods for creating special smart particles

Eye centering device for determining implant location

On line optical calibration and cooling for LED video sign

Optical fluorescence sensing device for array

Semiconductor manufacturing equipment

Sonic dental device business planning

Portable ophthalmoscope camera specification development and business planning

Contact lens display research and new concept development

 

 

 

Typical Prototype Project Examples

Optical-mechanical systems for white blood cell recognition system

Fiber optic lighting systems.

Photo plotters

Optical test equipment

Projectors and cameras for manufacturing automation and quality control

Periscope for remotely viewing turbine blades in a cogeneration facility.

Optical system for fluorescence imaging for cell diagnostics

Medical instrument utilizing specialized fiber optics for light delivery and image transmission to detect cervical cancer using a CCD camera and fluorescence technology

Optical-mechanical portions of electronic and microfilm cameras to record both sides of documents traveling at very high speed in a data processing system. The project required complex illumination, as well as efficient low distortion optics.

A videodisk project that used three cameras and specialized automation equipment to center a video disc stamper, measure it, and machine it to precision tolerances under control by three CCD cameras with computer image recognition capability.

Medical system used for initial research which required detection of very low level fluorescence radiation excited by a very stable laser system.

Developed and manufactured a number of optical alignment systems including light sources, telecentric optical projectors, and optical benches  to align rollers in steel rolling operations.

Multi-spectral fluorescence optical system at using fiber optics with special multi-spectral uniform lighting to detect cervical cancer from tissue response.

Reader with near-telecentric capability to read 4 micron code dots on 50-micron particles with low distortion.  We have also worked toward related low-cost hand-held devices.

Fiber based portable fluorescent sensing system for a large medical company that had related fiber optic and light uniformity issues using a high-powered LED for a light source.

Electronic LED sign with calibrated feedback at each pixel for remote recalibration.  We also designed special optics for  a number of LED lighting applications.