Company Overview

About Bodkin Design & Engineering

Your source for electro-optic and mechanical engineering

Since 1992, Bodkin Design & Engineering has provided product development, innovation, and engineering services to the industrial, commercial, military, and research communities.  BD&E has successfully introduced a broad range of products that incorporate cutting-edge technologies and has secured numerous industry patents for its clients.

These system-level solutions draw on our expertise in:

• Optics
• Electro-Optics
• Opto-Mechanics
• Mechanical Engineering
• Physics

BD&E is an innovative electro-optics engineering firm that has designed many first photonic applications. We have a team of highly experienced engineers and scientists who are experts in designing creative, cost-effective solutions to address your specific needs.

We pride ourselves in our ability to identify key performance requirements while working with our customer to effectively navigate complex trade-spaces to arrive at an optimal solution.

From precision engineered optical products for advanced space systems, to miniature portable generators for today’s soldiers, to custom OEM systems, Bodkin Design is your best source for creative and affordable solutions.  We invite you to discover how our cutting-edge expertise can solve your toughest problems!

List of Patents

• Patent # 5388525 – Railway car retarder
• Patent # 6023061 – Miniature infrared camera
• Patent # 6303934 – Monolithic infrared spectrometer apparatus and methods
• Patent # 6528792 – Gas detection apparatus using a combined infrared source and high temperature bolometer
• Patent # 6539336 – Sport monitoring system for determining airtime, speed, power absorbed and other factors such as drop distance
• Patent # 6687428 – Optical Switch
• Patent # 6844553 – Absorption spectroscopy apparatus and method
• Patent # 7049597 – Multi-mode optical imager
• Patent # 7157802 – Electrical Power Source
• Patent # 7796316 – Micro-Optic Shutter
• Patent # 7968848 – Infrared radiation sources, sensors and source combinations, and methods of manufacture
• Patent # 8154732 – Multiband spatial heterodyne spectrometer and associated methods
• Patent # 8174694 – Hyperspectral Imaging Systems
• Patent # 8233148 – Hyperspectral Imaging Systems
• Patent # 8451527 – Limited F-Cone Light Source

Publications

J. Meola, J. Martin, N. Paris, D. Perry, C. Roberts, A. Bodkin, “(U) Development and Testing of a Multi-Slit Longwave Infrared Hyperspectral Imaging System” Proc. MSS Passive Sensors 2015, PC-04, Gaithersburg, MD, 15 September 2015.

“High Spatial Resolution LWIR Hyperspectral Imager”, Carson B. Roberts, Andrew Bodkin, James T. Daly, Joseph Meola, Proc. SPIE, 9482-33, Next-Generation Spectroscopic Technologies VIII, 19-24 April 2015, Baltimore, MD.

“Precision Radiometric Surface Temperature (PRST) Sensor”, James T. Daly, Carson Roberts, Andrew Bodkin, Robert Sundberg, Scott Beaven, and Jeffrey Weinheimer, Proc. SPIE, 8707, Technologies for Synthetic Environments: Hardware-in-the-Loop XVIII, 87070A 29 April – 3 May 2013, Baltimore, MD (publ.: June 4, 2013); doi:10.1117/12.2016092.

“Video-Rate Chemical Identification and Visualization with Snapshot Hyperspectral Imaging”, Andrew Bodkin, A. Sheinis, A. Norton, J. Daly, C. Roberts, S. Beaven and J. Weinheimer, Proc. SPIE, 8374, Next-Generation Spectroscopic Technologies V, 83740C, 23-27 April 2012, Baltimore, MD (publ.: May 1, 2012); doi:10.1117/12.919202.

“Nitrate Detection by Thermal Infrared Emission Spectroscopy Imaging”, Carson B. Roberts, James T. Daly and W. Andrew Bodkin, Proc. Military Sensing Symposium, 12-15 March 2012, Pasadena, CA

“Compact, snapshot dual-polarization imager for generalized full Stokes vector imaging”, David P. Biss, James T. Daly, W. Andrew Bodkin, Daniel Tidwell, Proc. Military Sensing Symposium, 22-26 February 2010, Orlando, FL.

“Precision Radiometric Surface Temperature (PRST) Sensor”, James T. Daly, W. Andrew Bodkin, Scott Beaven, Jeffrey Weinheimer, Robert Sundberg, and David Biss, Proc. Directed Energy Test & Evaluation Conference, 10-12 August 2009, Albuquerque, NM.

“Snapshot Hyperspectral Imaging – the Hyperpixel Array Camera”, Andrew Bodkin, A. Sheinis, A. Norton, J. Daly, S. Beaven and J. Weinheimer, Proc. SPIE, 7334, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery XV, 73340H (April 27, 2009); doi:10.1117/12.818929.

“Snapshot dual-polarization imager for generalized full Stokes Vector imaging polarimetry”, David P. Biss, James T. Daly, W. Andrew Bodkin, Proc. Military Sensing Symposium, 23-26 February 2009, Orlando, FL.

“Algorithms and Implementation for a Hyperspectral Video System Using a Hyperpixel Array Imager” Jeffrey Weinheimer, Scott Beaven, Andrew Bodkin, Steven Smith and Jim Daly, Proc. Military Sensing Symposium, 23-26 February 2009, Orlando, FL.

“Recent Advances in Miniaturization of Infrared Spectrometers”, James T. Daly, William A. Stevenson, Andrew Bodkin, David A. White, Proc. SPIE, 3953, 23-28 January 2000.

“Tunable Narrow-Band Filter For LWIR Hyperspectral Imaging”, James T. Daly, Andrew Bodkin, William Schneller, Robert Kerr, John Noto, Raymond Haren, Michael Eismann, and Barry Karch, Proc. SPIE, 3948, 23-28 January 2000.