Remote UV Fluorescence Lifetime Spectrometer, Phase II

The RUVPhase^TM technology products are expected to find wide applications for NASA and in military, government, and civilian remote fluorescence sensing applications. The specific commercial market for such innovative spectrometers with fast growing emerging markets include the biomedical, pharmaceutical, chemical and petro-chemical, environmental, and geophysical fluorescence instrumentation market. Explosive markets ROI currently addresses with the RUVPhase^TM technology include fluorescence DNA sequencing, remote fluorescence monitoring of chemical and biological agents in military and homeland security applications, fluorescence monitoring of vegetation and marine life stress affected by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and fluorescence cryogenic gas leak sensing. Technology innovation is the driving force that has opens spectroscopic applications to new markets. These new markets and applications ins turn are driven by new instrument designs that are compact, lower cost, more functionality, and better performance. The RUVPhase^TM system will support a large variety of NASA terrestrial and space scientific applications for inorganic, organic, and biological materials identification and characterization. NASA has a need for advanced, lightweight, and power efficient scientific instrumentation that enable the remote or manned operated planetary scientific exploration of subsurface and surface geophysical measurements. The Lunar surface and subsurface is composed of a variety of mineral species that absorb light of certain wavelengths and emits light of other wavelengths. These emissions and absorptions create a "spectral signature" that can be use to identify and classify the mineral composition and its genealogical history. More »