SBIR PHASE I: Development of a Solid State, Liquid Crystal Spectrometer

这个小企业创新研究第一阶段的提案利用两种新兴技术来生产一个高分辨率、可调谐的光谱仪，没有移动部件。小型固态高分辨率光谱仪，具有CID提供的独特成像功能，是解决许多问题的完美解决方案，从过程光谱，在生产线上使用光谱分析仪到“遥感”工业过程。空间科学面临的问题，特别是美国国家航空航天局开发低预算航天器的倡议，这些航天器能够回答尚未解决的问题，同时在财政和教育上使大多数美国人受益。此外，在地面光学航空领域，由于预算减少，不得不使用新的仪器。具有扩展功能的仪器，完全自动化，能够在恶劣环境中生存。LC-FPS设计利用了一家主要液晶供应商的技术，将精密向列型晶体生长到传统的标准龙板表面，并通过施加可控电场来控制标准龙谐振波长。提出的创新光谱仪具有同类仪器中最高的光谱分辨率和通量，不仅允许丰度测量，还允许动态测量。这对正在进行的行星和彗星大气研究非常重要。LC-FPS是解决以下问题的理想工具：1)受管制环境污染物的遥感；2)在主要国家设施中增加当前的航空仪器。3)。替代目前在分子生物学和生物化学中常用的实验室FTIR光谱系统。4)。一个重要的工具，在任何领域利用光谱遥感或过程光谱学。

This Small Business Innovative Research Phase I proposal utilizes two emerging technologies to produce a high resolution, tunable spectrometer with no moving parts. A small, solid state high resolution spectrometer with the unique imaging capabilities provided by a CID is a perfect solution to many problems ranging from process spectroscopy, where a spectroscopic analyzer is used on a production line to `remote sense` an industrial process. To the problems facing the space sciences, in particular NASA's initiatives to develop lower budget spacecraft capable of answering unresolved questions while fiscally and educationally benefiting the greatest number of Americans. As well as uses in ground-based optical aeronomy, where smaller budgets are forcing new instrumentation. Instruments with expanded capabilities that are fully automated and capable of surviving in harsh environments. The LC-FPS design capitalizes on the technology of a major liquid crystal vendor to grow precision nematic crystals onto the surface of traditional etalon plates and to control etalon resonant wavelength by application of a controllable electric field. The innovative spectrometer proposed features the highest spectral resolution and throughput of any instrument in its class, permitting not only abundance measurements but also dynamically measurements. so important to ongoing research in planetary and cometary atmospheres. The LC-FPS is an ideal tool for problems ranging from: 1) The remote sensing of regulated environmental pollutants 2) Augmenting current aeronomical instrumentation at major national facilities. 3.) A replacement for current laboratory FTIR spectroscopy systems commonly used in molecular biology and biochemistry. 4.) An essential tool in any field that utilizes spectroscopic remote sensing or process spectroscopy.