Research and Development Services

Coherix applies it's technical core competencies and expertise to providing research and development services under grants and contracts for various clients. The company explores, develops and refines advanced and novel solutions to the these challenging applications:

•  non-contact metrology
• defect detection and error-proofing
•  inspection
•  image analysis

These applications cross a wide variety of domains including:

• Food processing
• Manufacturing quality assurance
• Biomedical image information extraction to support research
• Biotechnology optical measurement instruments
• Military quality control and equipment support
• Electronics and semiconductor material handling
• Industrial process control and inspection

These application domains all share a combination of needs for world-class technology in the arenas of:

• Lasers
• Coherent and non-coherent optics
• Interferometry
• Image processing algorithms
• High-definition 2-D and 3-D metrology
• Precision mechanical design
• High-speed electronic data acquisition, processing and control
• Multi-dimensional image sensing systems
• Intelligent multi-modal illumination systems.
• Real-time software and firmware engineering
• Operational system integration
• Ergonomic systems providing extreme ease of operation

Coherix has technical expertise in all of these technology arenas. This expertise, combined with the Coherix scientific and engineering facilities, provide a significant R & D capability.  Coherix has a history of R & D projects in these technology areas.

Through fixed-price and cost-plus programs as appropriate, Coherix reliably delivers results of high value to industrial, commercial and government clients across the nation and world-wide.

 R & D programs normally proceed through initial feasibility assessment and then later R&D phases leading to delivered systems, devices, software or other solutions matched to the needs of its clients.