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Products: Scientific Solutions, Inc. (SSI) specializes in the fabrication of Liquid Crystal Fabry-Perot (LCFP) tunable optical filters, Air-Gap Fabry-Perot Interferometers, Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometers (SHS), Space Weather instrumentation, and innovative Software. SSI is also the exclusive distributor of Avantes fiber-optic spectrometers and related accessories to the northeastern USA.

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Visit us in Santa Fe, NM
28 June - 2 July 2009

Event: We invite you to meet with us at the 2009 CEDAR Workshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 28 June - 2 July, 2009. SSI Staff Scientist, Dr. Steven Watchorn, will be presenting a poster. Dr. John Noto and Dr. Bob Kerr will also be available throughout the event to answer any questions you may have about our award-winning Liquid Crystal Fabry-Pérot (LCFP) tunable optical filters, classic Air-Gap Fabry-Pérot Interferometers, and other environmental sensing products. Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) is a focused Global Change program sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF).


Visit us in San Diego
3-6 August 2009 at


Event: SSI will be exhibiting in Booth #813 at SPIE's Optics + Photonics at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California, 3-6 August 2009. Please visit us for a demonstration of our award-winning Liquid Crystal Fabry-Perot (LCFP) tunable optical filters, to discuss our classic Air-Gap Fabry-Perot Interferometers, see our new Segmented Tunable Filter, and learn about our new Software and Space Weather Instrumentation. Drs. Noto and Watchorn will each be presenting two papers at the conference. We look forward to seeing you there!


Breakthrough LCFPs Now In Stock: We are thrilled to announce a recent LCFP production breakthrough that has allowed for the creation of etalons with unprecedented Free Spectral Ranges, as large as 86nm in the NIR! We have added some of these new LCFPs to our inventory of products currently in stock. Do you need a tunable etalon right now? These LCFPs are on our shelves and are ready to be shipped out immediately. They can be packaged with or without external housings, thermal stability, fiber couplings... you name it. Just contact us by phone at (978) 251-4554 x7019 or by email for more details, or order online through our secure webstore.

SSI News: [June 2009] The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a Phase I SBIR to SSI to develop a Fabry-Perot Spectrometer for Oxygen A-Band Research (FABSOAR). This instrument will offer 100x more throughput than a grating spectrometer thus allowing for 60x faster detection of bright daytime spectra, and even better detection of dimmer twilight spectra. In addition to its role in atmospheric research, this technology has significant commercial potential in both United States Government (USG) and private sector markets. FABSOAR can be tailored for use in a variety of different applications including atmospheric remote sensing, environmental trace-gas and chemical sensing, detection and monitoring, and LIDAR.

SSI News: [May 2009] SSI is proud to unveil two new innovative software packages designed to make Fabry-Perot use easier than ever before. Whether you are at an observatory or in a university laboratory, these new powerful software packages will significantly simplify the use of Fabry-Perot Interferometer systems and facilitate FP fringe analysis. FringeTool allows users to manipulate and analyze FITS-format Fabry-Perot interference fringe images. ImageTool is an integrated image acquisition and analysis software package for astronomy and aeronomy observations using SSI's Space Weather instrumentation. ImageTool also lets users interface with a wide variety of spectroscopic and imaging cameras.

SSI News: [April 2009] SSI is being considered for a 2009 R&D100 Award for its "segmented tunable filter”. This electro-optical filter is an innovation capable of simultaneously collecting spatial and spectral information while providing high spectral resolution and rapid tuning. Based upon Fabry-Perot technology, this next-generation tunable optical filter achieves multiple, independently tunable filter segments on a single substrate. The recently patented technology is intended for use as the key dispersive element in a hybrid multi-spectral imaging system and can be used to create multi-spectral imagers capable of generating small but dense data cubes of very narrow bandwidth spectral images. Winners will be announced in July.

SSI News: [March 2009] SSI is designing a new class of hyperspectral imager (HSI) specifically optimized for CubeSat testbed implementation (C-HSI) based on the robust, very spaceworthy monolithic SHS. Sensing platforms can extract maximum information from target scenes by acquiring high-resolution imagery in simultaneous spatial and spectral dimensions. A HSI acquires multi-wavelength 2-D spatial images by orienting a slit aperture orthogonal to the vehicle velocity vector in a push broom configuration. Distribution of multiple HSIs on a fleet of CubeSats can provide global coverage unavailable with single satellite orbital platforms and provide a novel architecture for multiwavelength target discrimination and 3-D target reconstruction.

 

SSI Brochure: SSI's 2009 brochure serves as a compact Fabry-Perot reference handbook in addition to outlining the specifications of our next-generation optical instruments. The full-color brochure includes a brief Fabry-Perot 101 and a detailed crash course in Fabry-Perot Fundamentals. It goes on to describe our Air Gap Fabry-Perot Interferometers, LCFP tunable filters, precision control systems, acquisition and analysis software, Space Weather instrumentation, and several cutting-edge innovations. If you have not yet received your FREE copy, please send us an email with your mailing address and we will send one to you without delay. Alternatively, you can download an electronic copy.

Avantes: The Avantes catalog "Solutions in Spectroscopy" introduces more than 30 new products and applications including a new high-speed USB2 platform, a 3648-pixel UV/VIS/NIR fiber-optic spectrometer, and 2 new NIR-exclusive spectrometers! A new version of AvaSoft (7.3) has been released as well that features up to 8 channels of multiple USB2 platform support with the possibility of different detectors, integration times, and averaging settings per channel, synchronization options, and updated display options. Send us an email today to request more information, a free copy of this 2007-2008 Avantes Catalog, and/or an Avantes USA Pricelist.

 
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