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Spinoff story
Terahertz Lasers Reveal Information for 3D Images
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
When Kennedy Space Center started looking for new capabilities to inspect the thermal materials for future space vehicles, it solicited proposals through the STTR program. NASA worked with Boston-based LongWave Photonics LLC on a source of terahertz radiation called the quantum cascade laser (QCL). By 2011, LongWave started selling the Easy QCL to academic, industrial, and government researchers.