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Dream designs, engineers and produces carbon fiber parts and finished assemblies, as well as high-temperature
cast glass engineered lightweight
precision optical mirrors;
from 20mm to over 1m. The interior of our largest composite oven
is 3.66m wide, 1.83m deep and 1.68m tall. Both of Dream's core
technologies are produced in-house in Nazareth, Pennsylvania
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Carbon Fiber Structures: |
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- Design and In-House Production since
2003 |
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- Specializing in Low-Void Carbon Fiber, especially Dream's CFSC™ (Carbon
Fiber skinned Sandwich
Core) Parts,
Sub-Assemblies & Main Structures |
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- From Small To Large Parts: Dream's largest
composite oven 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 Structures (no optics),
Stainless Steel Hardware & Dream's Stainless
Steel Inserts For The Highest Performance, Longevity &
Low Maintenance. |
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Dream's CF and CFSC™ performance
is unusually high because our advanced
composite structures have been created from the ground up specifically
for demanding opto-mechanical
systems, not open-market composites. |
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We've designed our carbon fiber to be athermal
to our lightweight mirrors. This is an enormous advantage
for the mirror mounts, while reducing or eliminating focus shifts.
The high-stiffness and athermal nature mean the instrument does
not need constant re-alignment and/or focus adjustments: the
lowest maintenance instruments in the market. |
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Lenses & Lightweight Mirrors:lightweight telescope mirrors |
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- Optical Design, Engineering & Tolerancing
(Zemax) |
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- Engineered
Lightweight Mirrors (20mm to 1150mm) |
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- Finished & Coated Mirrors &
Lenses |
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- Mounted Mirrors & Lenses: Finished Correctors & Full
Instruments |
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- Capability To Design, Engineer & Produce Standard and Custom
Full Instruments, Including Athermal Opto-Mechanical Instruments
& Corrective Lenses, Low CTE, High Stiffness CF Housings
and Spacers For Corrective Lenses. |
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carbon fiber communications antenna,
carbon fiber composite satellite communications antennas |
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carbon fiber antennas, high-performance
satellite antennas, Q band and V band, CubeSat, MicroSat |
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Dream's zeroDELTA™
lightweight mirrors have both unrivaled engineering and performance
because we put just as much engineering in the lightweight mirror
as the mirror mount. Dream is also at the cutting
edge due to the thin features of the zeroDELTA™ lightweight mirrors. |
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These are high-temp lightweight
mirror castings that don't have the design limitations of pocket-milling,
low-temperature fusing, frit-bonded or bonded lightweight mirrors.
When it comes out of the furnace, it's one piece of glass, with
no fuse and/or bondline inconsistencies. |
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This
paper illustrates why Dream's
20+ years of engineering lightweight mirrors is so valuable. |
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"Your company does phenomenal work. Dream's
engineering sets their lightweight mirrors apart from competitors.
Your engineering goes beyond the lightweight aspect. You focus
on actual performance!" |
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- Ted Kamprath: 40 years
in professional optics |
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lightweight carbon fiber satellite antenna,
lightweight satellite antennas |
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"It's impossible to talk about actual
performance of systems, and of individual optics, without addressing
how humans and other variables are influencing that data." |
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Shane Santi |
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True Performance Doesn't Fear
Change. |
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It Defies The Status Quo.™ |
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zeroDELTA™ aspheres have been
finished to L/125 (5nm) RMS surface, 2Å (0.2nm) RMS surface
roughness, with radii as tight as 0.002% of nominal. They can
be finished to a super-polish
(1Å (0.1nm) or less), which is limited by the process
& optical metrology, not the zeroDELTA™ mirrors. |
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8.2 lb independent test head (right)
allows testing of optics at different angles and in the presence
of vibrations. A modern, enabling technology by itself. |
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635mm zeroDELTA™ engineered lightweight
mirror & 4D Technology PhaseCam
6000
dynamic interferometer inside Dream. |
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The atmosphere isn't the super-villain we're all taught.
Click the Moon. |
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Optifab: Rochester, NY. 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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Dream creates world-class highly engineered
lightweight mirrors with solid mirror-level Mid-Spatial
Frequency (MSF) errors, validating
Dream's engineering, expertise and paradigm-shifting high-performance,
lower cost lightweight mirrors. For ground, air & space. |
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A f1.0 Dream zeroDELTA™
lightweight mirror for aerospace prime. |
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During the coldest weather in at least
25 years, Dream finishes two more zeroDELTA™
mirrors in its extremely stable polishing
& test room. |
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European manufacturer receives Dream's 250mm CA fully
generated & perforated zeroDELTA™ mirror blank.
Later receiving multiple convex
secondary mirror blanks and 300mm CA primary mirror blanks as
well. |
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Dream casts and fully
processes a bubble-free f1.376 mirror for an Adaptive
Optics project. The mirror is six
times lower in areal density than
Hubble's M1, but can be finished with conventional polishing
techniques & equipment. |
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s t r o n o m yooi sooi nooaood r e a m .™ |
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Text (610) 360-7874 or e-mail info
@ dreamscopes . com to
discuss your project's needs and the advantages Dream offers
with it's technologies for the tight tolerances of truly modern
& cutting-edge opto-mechanical & electro-optical systems. |
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Dream's 7000
sq ft facility |
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text (610) 360-7874 |
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electro-optical, electro-optics |
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info @ dreamscopes . com |
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space domain awareness (SDA),
space Situational Awareness (SSA), Ball Aerospace, Lockheed martin,
Boeing space, Airbus defence & space, planewave instruments,
NASA JPL, NASA goddard, lightweight telescope, lightweight precision
optics, lightweight precision mirrors |
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