R&D Management Services

Typical Project Examples

Research

• Microfilm systems. 
• Fiber optic lighting systems. 
• Laser surgery systems. 
• Ink jet technology. 
• Photo plotters. 
• Semiconductor processing. 
• Optical test equipment. 
• Viewers for disabled. 
• Projectors for manufacturing and quality control. 
• Market study for importing ophthalmic lenses. 
• Periscope for remotely viewing turbine blades in a cogeneration facility. 
• Optical system for fluorescence imaging for cancer detection. 
• Fiber optic pressure sensing. 
• Video probe for subsurface undersea exploration. 
• LED Video display signs
• Device for optimizing the sight of those with Macular Degeneration
• Patent search on new ophthalmoscope camera systems
• Patent searching on new macular degeneration vision devices
• Contact lens display research and new concept development

Feasibility Analysis

• Surveillance systems. 
• Fiber optics displacement encoder. 
• IR safety systems for machines. 
• Device to read and write a GByte of information on a small smart card.
• Reader for small particles use for anti-counterfeiting applications. 
• High speed, high resolution inspection for semiconductors. 
• Higher speed medical diagnostics
• IR sensor for determining fraction of water in crude oil
• Optical inspection for rapid sub-micron semiconductor inspection
•  Fiber-light pipe laser delivery catheter system
• Alcohol sensor sensitivity
• Optical functional testing for electronic toothbrushes
• Laser delivery system for heart procedure
• New rotary encoder approach
• Power delivery from LEDs via fiber optics
• Power delivery from IR laser via fiber optics
• Simplified diagnostic device with integral window
• New optical approach for smoke alarm
• Commercial fluorescence lifetime medical application 
• Virtual reality display for MRI application

Concept Demonstration

• Optical system for detection of fluorescence from a laser-excited biological sample. 
• Automatic reader for very small particle identification and classification. 
• Fiber optics sensor system for monitoring optical coatings. 
• Star locator teaching tool for astronomy. 
• Periscope for remotely viewing turbine blades in a cogeneration facility. 
• Optical system for fluorescence imaging used for cancer detection. 
• Fertility microscope. 
• Semiconductor wafer methods for creating special smart particles 
• Eye centering device for determining implant location
• On line optical calibration and cooling for LED video sign
• Optical fluorescence sensing device for array 

R&D Strategy Development

• Photo plotting system comparison for importer. 
• Text and graphics digitizer. 
• Microfilm system standard change. 
• R&D strategies related to development programs. 
• Marketing strategy for new optical materials and new lens arrays. 
• Strategy for development of a new urology instrument. 
• Marketing research and strategies for distributing ophthalmic lenses. 
• Automatic reader for very small particle identification and classification. 
• Precision projectors for manufacturing and quality control. 
• Market study for importing ophthalmic lenses. 
• Optical detection of fluorescence from laser-excited biological samples 
• Optical system for fluorescence imaging used for cancer detection 
• Proposed development for macular degeneration device
• Dental sonic diagnostic device upgrade for potential market

Business and Project Planning

• Laser company start-up 
• Text and graphics digitizer 
• Semiconductor manufacturing equipment
• Sonic dental device business planning
• Portable ophthalmoscope camera specification development and business planning

Curt Deckert Associates, Inc.
Competitive R&D

18061 Darmel Place
Santa Ana, CA 92705, USA.