Founded in 1994 and fully incorporated in 1995, Scientific Solutions, Incorporated (SSI) is a small, privately-held S-Corporation. Located at 55 Middlesex St. Unit 210 in North Chelmsford, Massachusetts, SSI's facilities include office space, modern fully-equipped optical science laboratories, and a certified Class-1000 clean-room. Formed by observational Space, Atmospheric, and Planetary physicists, the SSI staff presently numbers ten. SSI's mission is to integrate innovative electro-optic technology into mechanically robust, low power consumption, frequency agile systems for imaging, defense, telecommunication, and scientific research applications. SSI specializes in the fabrication of both classic Air-Gap Fabry-Perot Interferometers and next-generation Liquid Crystal Fabry-Perot (LCFP) tunable optical filters. The SSI Team collectively brings together more than 40 years of hands-on Fabry-Pérot experience. In 2003, SSI became the exclusive distributor of Avantes fiber optic spectrometers and related accessories to the northeastern USA. In addition to its award-winning products, SSI provides a range of photonics services including optical system design, spectroscopic consulting, and optical coating design. SSI revenues are currently divided between commercial sales, SBIR contracts, and scientific grants.

Dr. John Noto is the President and Founder of Scientific Solutions, Inc. as well as the inventor of the Liquid Crystal Fabry-Perot interferometer as developed by SSI. Noto has received a B.S. in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Rochester, an M.S. in Physics from Tufts University, and a Ph.D. in Astronomy/Space Physics from Boston University. He has more than 10 years of experience in optical research and development, focused on narrow-band spectroscopy and interferometry.

Dr. Robert Kerr has been with SSI since 1997, serving originally as Director of Research. Kerr received a B.S. in Physics from Ohio University in 1979, a M.S. in Atmospheric Science from The University of Michigan in 1981, and a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Michigan in 1986. Kerr was a member of the technical staff at the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo CA in 1987 and was a professor of Astronomy at Boston University from 1988 to 1997. He has served as Director of Aeronomy at the NSF and Director at the Arecibo Observatory.

SSI maintains active research programs at Haystack/Millstone Observatory in Massachusetts (USA), the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, Sondre Stromfjord Observatory in Greenland, the Inter-American Observatory on Cerro Tololo in Chile, and the Steward/Mt. Lemon Observatory in Arizona (USA). SSI staff has served on Arecibo, NSF, and DOE scientific advisory committees, and belongs to professional societies including AGU, AAS, DPS, SPIE, OSA, and the Electrochemical Society.

Research in the fields of aeronomy and atmospheric science is conducted at Arecibo by Dr. John Noto. The Passive Optical Laboratory at Arecibo has a variety of instrumentation used for the passive study of terrestrial airglow. A Fabry-Perot interferometer is used to measure neutral winds and temperatures of the upper atmosphere of the earth. Another Fabry-Perot is used to measure hydrogen and helium population. This capability complements that of the incoherent scatter radar to study escape of hydrogen and helium from the upper atmosphere. The optical instrumentation at Arecibo Passive Optical Laboratory includes a photometer, several Fabry-Perots, and a spectrometer. Domes in the roof of the building are assigned to various researchers with different applications, including atmospheric science, aeronomy, auroral studies, passive remote sensing, and LIDAR. The research goals at SSI include the integration of an imager in this facility at Arecibo.

SSI awarded Phase II SBIR contract by the US Army (SHIELDS) (February 11, 2008)

Scientific Solutions, Inc. receives US Patent No. 6,757,046 (June 29, 2004)

Avantes and Scientific Solutions, Inc. Form Distribution Partnership (August 28, 2003)

Scientific Solutions, Inc. Wins Phase II SBIR Award for Next Generation WDM Components (October 3, 2002)

Scientific Solutions, Inc. Wins 2001 Circle of Excellence Award (January 25, 2002)

Segmented tunable filters advance multispectral imaging - Laser Focus World (January 2008)

Tunable filters facilitate nondestructive analysis of art - Laser Focus World (April 2003)

Fly-eye design advances atmospheric remote sensing - Laser Focus World (July 2001)

Filters expand capabilities of infrared imaging - Laser Focus World (January 2001)

A Spectroscopically Resolved Photo- and Electroluminescence Microscopy Technique for the Study of High-Power and High-Brightness Laser Diodes, S. Bull, A.V. Andrianov, I. Harrison, M. Dorin, R.B. Kerr, J. Noto, and E.C. Larkins, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 54, No. 3, p. 1079-1088, June 2005

HST observation of the atmospheric composition of Jupiter's equatorial region: evidence for tropospheric C2H2 - Icarus 163 (2003) p.414-427

Novel tunable liquid crystal Fabry-Perot filters for Fiber-Optical system, Asia Pacific Optical and Wireless Communications (APOC) conference, Beijing, 2001

Tunable Narrow-Band Filter For LWIR Hyperspectral Imaging, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 3948 (2000) p.104-115

The Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometer: A New Tool for Atmospheric Science, Steven Watchorn, CEDAR, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2004