Hhhheeeyyyy... Just saying fiber optics are going to be a far more approachable possibility for optics in cubesats just based on weight, especially if they use a refraction method similar to multiple beam splittings from a liquid/material that works better for that.
Nothing against huygensoptics, seriously. But weight in space is hard & expensive.
Love the fact that they commented & decided to help. Who knows, maybe that's something that could work out.
If you want to get into that space side, a little more quickly at least, BPS.Space might be the dude to look at for trying that if possible. If not, then it might be faster to try with a hydrogen/helium balloon with a little easier thrust system at first. I'm sure you know that, but still.
I've still been thinking about your ideas using metal on glass surfaces to force a specific type of optical transistor architecture that uses layers & a more field based effect to complete enough volt from collapsing it through changes wavelength interference due to phasing & reflection.
