Development of SciFast: an ultrafast broadband spectrometer

该NSERC联盟项目涉及科学技术(伦敦)和滑铁卢大学超快电子成像实验室(UeIL)之间的合作伙伴关系。科学技术是一家加拿大全资公司，将自己定位为太阳模拟器、高分辨率光谱仪和各种光谱仪器生产领域的日益领先的公司。在过去的36年里，科学技术公司在加拿大设计和制造了光学光谱仪器。UEIL是一家专门为先进的超快时间分辨光谱仪开发硬件和软件解决方案的学术研究实验室。这项提议将使全自动超快时间分辨宽带光谱仪的生产成为可能，在这里被称为SciFast。这一开发包括硬件和软件，并将在18个月内完成。这一合作伙伴关系将产生技术创新，通过在科学技术公司的产品组合中增加两种新产品和改进的软件解决方案，为增长奠定坚实的基础：作为一个完全集成的系统的SciFast和作为一个独立单元的高速色散宽带光谱仪(SciFast的探测器)。后者将通过采用他们的第一款紧凑型色散光谱仪来扩展科学技术公司目前的光谱仪系列。据我们所知，世界上只有少数几家公司提供与SciFast类似的产品，这将成为加拿大生产的第一台完全集成的时间分辨率宽带光谱仪。

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.