The Industries We Serve

With expertise on staff that ranges from medical devices to aerospace instrumentation, we combine deep knowledge of the technology with an understanding of your application to provide the best solution.

Tackling Challenging New Problems in Novel Areas

ICON/automotive

Automotive

Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving increasingly rely on optical sensors, such as lidar. Using LCPGs, BNS offers optical beam steering solutions that are non-mechanical, robust, and proven to improve range and resolution in a variety of sensor architectures.
ICON/aerospace

Aerospace

In aerospace applications, reducing size, weight, and power (SWaP) of instrumentation packages is paramount. By employing LCPGs for non-mechanical beam steering, BNS is able to reduce SWaP of steered optical systems while improving robustness to mechanical shock and vibration.
ICON/neuroscience

Neuroscience

Using phase-modulating SLMs, BNS enables precise holographic photostimulation of 10’s - 100’s of neurons deep within the brains of awake and behaving animals at unmatched speeds.  
ICON/manufacturing_automation

Manufacturing + Automation

Modern manufacturing and distribution operations rely increasingly on robotic components that need to visualize their surroundings. Non-mechanical beam steering with LCPGs directly compliments inexpensive time-of-flight cameras to enable high-definition 3D vision capable of resolving fine details over a wide field of regard.
ICON/telecommunications

Telecommunication

BNS provides a variety of novel non-mechanical solutions for free-space optical communications. These include pointing, acquisition, and tracking; dynamic focusing; and fast variable optical attenuators.
ICON/wind-power-generation

Wind Power Generation

Modern wind turbines benefit from real-time information about upwind 3D wind vectors. This data can be extracted through coherent Doppler lidar measurements along multiple lines of sight (LOS). Due to their high optical quality, LCPGs are an excellent means of generating multiple LOS in a coherent lidar system without the addition of motorized wedges or additional telescopes.
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Nikki Soledad is a Clean Room Technician at Boulder Nonlinear Systems.

Customers come to BNS from all kinds of industries and sectors. At any time, I might be working on hardware for an academic neuroscientist, a government research program, and a Silicon Valley company side-by-side, and that’s part of what makes it fun.

Nikki Soledad

Clean Room Technician

Light Control Technology

BNS specializes in two core technologies to develop devices and systems for a variety of research and industrial applications in the defense, biomedical, automotive, aerospace, and basic science fields.

Non-mechanical Beam Steering Spatial Light Modulators

Discover more ways our advanced technologies can shape, correct, and steer light to address your challenging applications.
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