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Dream designs, engineers
and produces carbon
fiber parts and finished
assemblies, as well as engineered
lightweight optical mirrors. Both of Dream's core technologies are produced in-house
in Nazareth, Pennsylvania (USA). ABE airport is less than
15 minutes from Dream. |
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high-powered rocketry, carbon fiber rocket
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carbon fiber rocket fins, rocketry group |
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cubeSats, space telescopes |
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January 2018 |
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During the coldest weather in at least
25 years, Dream finishes two more zeroDELTA™
mirrors in its extremely stable
polishing & testing room. |
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November 2017 |
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European manufacturer receives Dream
250mm f3 zeroDELTA™
mirror blank. |
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Optifab: Rochester, NY mid-October 2017. RJ in the Schott booth with two Dream zeroDELTA™
mirror blanks (left) and Don in 4D Technologies booth with the
NanoCam Sq on top of a 400mm Dream zeroDELTA™ mirror; 9.5
lbs (right). |
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True Performance Doesn't
Fear Change. It Defies The Status Quo.™ |
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Carbon Fiber Structures: |
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- Design, Engineering (FEM/FEA) and In-House
Production |
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- Specializing in Low-Void Carbon Fiber (CF) and Carbon Fiber
skinned Sandwich Core (CFSC)
Parts, Sub-Assemblies & Main Structures (largest
composite oven is 6' x 12' x 6') |
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- Vacuum-Bagged & Oven-Baked Parts Using High-Temperture
Epoxy |
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- 95% Carbon Fiber Optical
Assemblies By Weight Of The Structure (no
optics), Using Stainless Steel Inserts & Hardware
For The Greatest Performance & Longevity |
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Optical - Mirrors & Lenses:lightweight telescope mirrors |
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- Optical Design, Engineering & Tolerancing
(Zemax) |
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- Engineered Lightweight
Mirrors (25mm to 1150mm) |
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- Finished & Coated Mirrors
& Lenses |
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- Mounted Mirrors & Lenses: Finished Correctors & Full
Telescopes |
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- Capability To Design, Engineer & Produce Standard and Custom
Full Telescopes, Including Athermal Telescopes & Corrective
Lenses, Low CTE, High Stiffness CF Housings and Spacers For Corrective
Lenses. |
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telescope performance |
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Dream produces standard, existing designs, but can design,
analyze and produce a wide range of optical systems, from numerous
forms of Cassegrains to corrected Newtonians to wide field 1m
Prime Focus Telescopes. Our lead optical engineer has 35 years
of both design and implementation experience, especially with
fast & demanding optical systems. Dream's technologies enable
our customers to get the most out of their high performance systems by using truly modern materials,
techniques and designs. This can include the use of carbon fiber
lens barrels and internal spacers for improved dynamic temperature
performance of corrective optics & the system. |
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Finished
instruments have the
lowest possible maintenance due to Dream's unique technologies.
Dream's telescopes are low in total mass, have an extremely low
CTE, are corrosion resistant and have a higher stiffness (and strength) to
weight ratio than conventional materials. They are designed from
the ground up for remote/robotic use. Because of their near zero
maintenance they are ideal for border survelience, military,
science, education and numerous additional applications. |
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Dream works in the
UV, visual, NIR, Mid to Far IR. Used for; lasercom, LIDAR, AO,
astmospheric research, surveys, discoveries, airborne, balloon-borne,
optical systems used in demanding thermal environments, etc. |
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Customers using Dream's technologies: US Air Force, NASA, Raytheon, Honeywell,
numerous government R&D labs, Universities, Professionals,
as well as numerous OEM's, for world-wide customers. Dream is
currently registered with DOD & DOE customers, as well as
sam.gov. |
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Dream's
7000 sq ft facility |
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honeycomb lightweight mirrors |
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White
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See a Dream engineered lightweight mirror in
person: |
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- .April,
SPIE DCS, booth 822 - 2017 |
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- .August
8-10, SPIE Optics and Photonics, booth 8548 - 2017 |
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- September 19-20, OSA Frontiers in Optics, booth 314 - 2017 |
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- October 17-19, SPIE Optifab, booths 212 & 701 - 2017 |
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- January 27 - February 1, 2018, SPIE Photonics West, booths;
4244, 4248, 5JF and 330. |
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Schedule a visit to
Dream to see the advantages offered by
modern materials, designs and optimized methods of fabrication,
specifically created for the tight tolerances of modern opto-mechanical
& electro-optical systems. |
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