PIAA optics for high contrast imaging present challenges in manufacturing and testing due to their large surface departures from aspheric profiles at the aperture edges . With smaller form factors and consequent smaller surface deformations ( < 50 microns ) , fabrication of these mirrors with diamond turning followed by electron beam lithographic techniques becomes feasible . Though such a design reduces the system throughput to approx.50 % , it still provides good performance down to 2 lambda / D inner working angle . With new achromatic focal plane mask designs , the system performance can be further improved . We report on the design , expected performance , fabrication challenges , and initial assessment of such novel PIAA optics .