STTR OSW27TZ02-NV001 (Office of the Secretary of Defense): Wafer-scale low-loss hyperbolic optical material
U.S. Department of Defense — Office of the Secretary of Defense
- Posted
- Nov 13, 2026
- Closes
- Jan 6, 2027 (in 54 days)
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About this opportunity
Office of the Secretary of Defense STTR topic — Accepting submissions 2026-12-02 to 2027-01-06. Conventional optical systems are limited by diffraction, which sets the smallest features they can pattern, image, or confine to roughly the wavelength of the light used. A class of strongly anisotropic, or "hyperbolic," optical materials can confine and route light far below this limit, enabling a family of compact, low size-weight-and-power photonic components of direct interest to OUSW (R&E). Hyperbolic behavior has historically been realized in artificial metamaterials, which are optically lossy, and difficult to fabricate and scale. Certain naturally occurring crystals exhibit the same behavior with far lower loss, but the available examples operate only in the infrared and have been produ...