Compact Ultraviolet Spectrometer

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Small Business Innovation Research
Compact Ultraviolet Spectrometer
Optra, Inc.
Topsfield, MA
INNOVATION Laser diode referenced
Interferometer-spectrometer

• ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• ?Designed, fabricated and tested a
• Fourier transform spectrometer
  based on
• auto-aligned scanning Michelson
  interferometer
• ?Successfully employed a solid-state diode
• laser for the auto-align system,
  yielding
• significant size and weight
  savings
• COMMERCIALIZATION
• ?Received 3 million under contract
  with Technical Products Group to provide 47
  spectrometers for prototype joint services
  lightweight standoff chemical agent detectors for
  U.S. Armed Forces - procurement is expected to
  reach 10 million over next decade

Joint Services Spectrometer
GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS ? Employed at JPL
Table Mountain to study diurnal variability of
atmospheric OH radical ? Balloon spectroscopy to
study photo-chemical reactions and transport
processes in the atmosphere
1988 Phase II NAS7-1109 Success Story 7-011
Jet Propulsion Laboratory