Mechanical Engineering

The mechanical engineers at Diffraction LTD are experts at building high tech devices that can withstand harsh real word environments. Diffraction LTD's mechanical engineers have experience integrating our advanced optical and electrical technology into a variety of platforms. Those platforms include handheld imagers; helmet mounted monoculars, goggles, and other sensors; weapon mounted scopes, ball turret imaging systems, stabilized airframe mounted imaging systems, and driver vision enhancement and other vehicle mounted imaging systems. The mechanical engineering group's design and analysis expertise includes:

• Design of precision optical stages and mechanisms for objective lenses, eyepieces, laser illuminators, etc.
• Design of rugged, lightweight, precise mounts for weapons, head/helmet, vehicle, airframe, and UAVs
• Design of high volume and low cost injection molded parts
• Expertise with advanced composites and other materials
• Finite element analysis
• Computation fluid dynamics modeling
• Heat transfer modeling and system design
• Kinetics modeling
• Gear train, power transmission, fatigue life, and other types of material and mechanical analysis