Development of SciFast: an ultrafast broadband spectrometer

这个NSERC联盟项目涉及Sciencetech（伦敦ON）和滑铁卢大学超快电子成像实验室（UeIL）之间的伙伴关系。Sciencetech是一家100%加拿大独资的公司，在太阳能模拟器、高分辨率光谱仪和各种光谱仪器的生产方面，一直处于不断发展的领先地位。在过去的36年里，Sciencetech在加拿大设计和制造了光谱仪器。UeIL是一个学术研究实验室，专门从事先进的超快时间分辨光谱仪的硬件和软件解决方案的开发。该提案将使全自动超快时间分辨宽带光谱仪的生产成为可能，在此称为SciFast。这一合作关系将带来技术创新，为Sciencetech的产品组合和改进的软件解决方案增加两种新产品，从而为公司的发展奠定坚实的基础：SciFast作为一个完全集成的系统和一个高速色散宽带光谱仪（SciFast的探测器）作为一个独立的单元。后者将通过整合Sciencetech的第一个紧凑型色散模型来扩展Sciencetech现有的光谱仪系列。据我们所知，全球只有少数公司提供与SciFast类似的产品，这将成为加拿大生产的第一个完全集成的时间分辨宽带光谱仪。

This NSERC Alliance project involves a partnership between Sciencetech (London ON) and the Ultrafast electron Imaging Laboratory (UeIL) of the University of Waterloo. Sciencetech is a 100% Canadian owned company that has positioned itself as a growing leader in the production of solar simulators, high-resolution spectrometers, and a variety of spectroscopic instrumentation. Sciencetech has designed and manufactured optical spectroscopy instruments in Canada during the past 36 years. UeIL is an academic research laboratory that specializes in the development of hardware and software solutions for advanced ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopies.This proposal will enable the production of a fully automated ultrafast time-resolved broadband spectrometer, herein referred to as SciFast. This development involves both hardware and software and will be completed within 18 months.This partnership will lead to the generation of technology innovation that will confer a strong base for growth with the addition of two new product offerings to Sciencetech's portfolio and improved software solutions: SciFast as a fully integrated system and a high-speed dispersive broadband spectrometer (the detector of SciFast) as a standalone unit. The latter will extend the current line of spectrometers of Sciencetech by incorporating their first compact dispersive model.To the best of our knowledge, there is only a handful of companies worldwide providing similar products to SciFast, which will become the first fully integrated time-resolved broadband spectrometer produced in Canada.