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HAWKAI DESIGN PLATFORM

HawkAI is Peak’s patented LGRIN optics design platform. We can test millions of permutations of optics designs to create a lens prescription to meet specific requirements, enabling us to reduce the design time for new optics systems from months to weeks. 

The HawkAI machine learning platform can test millions of optics combinations to develop an ideal solution for each optics application. This advanced design platform revolutionizes optics development to optimize size, weight, color clarity, field of view, and distance performance.
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UNPARALLELED OPTICS PERFORMANCE WITH LGRIN
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2X Thinner Optics
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Our LGRIN technology enables Peak to create optics up to 2X thinner than traditional glass optics.

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50% Lighter Optics
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Our optics leverage Peak’s patented NanoPlex metamaterials to create up to 50% lighter optics than traditional glass-based optics.

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Optimized Color Resolution
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LGRIN technology provides superior color resolution and management to make images sharper and more accurate.

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Wider Field
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HawkSight’s LGRIN enables us to design for wider fields of view to provide better performance and lighter weight than glass optics.

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HIGH-RESOLUTION ACROSS THE FOV
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Peak’s LGRIN technology provides complete focus and high resolution across the Field of View (FOV), unlike some glass optics.

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Environmental Safety
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Using NanoPlex metamaterials for LGRIN optics eliminates the use of glass optics made with lead, nickel, and other hazardous substances.


HOW HAWKSIGHT OPTICS ARE MADE

HawkSight optics required the development of new manufacturing science. This included inventing new instrumentation to measure refractive indexes for our lens prescriptions and new diamond-turning methodologies with nanoscale precision. Today, we use over 800 refractive index versions of NanoPlex films to create new LGRIN (Layered Gradient Refractive Index) lenses that can optimize the field of view, clarity, color correction, and distance vision.

Peak is a global leader in the science of LGRIN. We use our HawkAI software to optimize our designs to meet specific design specifications. Our HawkSight lenses can be 2X thinner and 50% lighter than traditional glass optics.


The History of LGRIN
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The fundamental concepts and mathematics for GRIN (Gradient Refractive Index) were invented by James Maxwell (1831–1879), who formulated a set of equations known as Maxwell’s equations. In the 1950s, Harold Hopkins and Narinder Kapany pioneered using multiple thin glass lenses to correct optical aberrations in high-quality imaging systems. This work contributed to the foundation of what would later become gradient index optics. In the early 1970s, Duncan Moore and John Yoder made additional advancements in the understanding and practical application of gradient index optics. Their work paved the way for commercializing GRIN optical devices and systems for fiber optics and other specialized applications. 

In 2002, DARPA initiated the Bio-Optic Synthetic Systems (BOSS) program, which aimed to synthesize the components of a biologically inspired vision system and demonstrate a level of performance beyond that of standard optical imaging systems (i.e., with reduced size and complexity). Out of more than a dozen exploratory efforts, four efforts were selected for further development and demonstration: fluidic adaptive zoom lenses, foveated imaging, photon sieves, and nanolayer lenses. Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) collaborated on the nanolayer lens effort to create a synthetic lens that would mimic the structure and capabilities of an octopus eye.  And this was the genesis of Peak’s LGRIN (Layered Gradient Refractive Index).


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