San Diego / California / United States
Surface Optics (SOC) is an employee-owned small business that was founded in 1978. The company specializes in the characterization and exploitation of the optical properties of surfaces. For more than 20 years, SOC has been conducting measurement services under government and commercial contracts, and has developed an extensive database of optical measurements for a wide variety of materials. Coupled with the measurements, SOC develops sophisticated suites of analytical software for exploiting the measurement data for a number of practical engineering applications. These tools include optical constant determination, optical phenomenology of composite materials, coatings design, thermal analysis and visible, infrared and radar signature simulation. From this base of laboratory measurement and phenomenology expertise, SOC has developed a wide range of commercial products, such as instrumentation for laboratory and field optical measurements, hyper-spectral video imagers and processors, PC-based engineering software and databases and surface coating products and services. The company also offers its services on a contract basis for engineering projects that require support in optical phenomenology and measurements, and can develop customized instruments and accessories for specific measurement applications. Surface Optics is based in San Diego.
