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Spinoff story
Space-Ready Spectrometer Offers Terrestrial Advantages
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
Under two SBIR contracts with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the 1990s, Brimrose Corporation of Sparks, Maryland, made its acousto-optic tunable-filter (AOTF) spectrometers smaller, lighter, sturdier, and more energy efficient. The company now sells 14 different AOTF spectrometer models that are used in industries ranging from pharmaceuticals and medical imaging to agriculture and oil and gas.