The commercial market for the instrument will be in manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries, where the Raman instrument can be used as a quality control instrument for raw materials and end products. In addition, the instrument can also be beneficial for first responders for interrogating unknown samples.
The NASA application for the dual excitation wavelength Raman instrument is for remote lunar and planetary analysis of mineralogical and soil samples. Specific NASA programs include In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU), The Exploration Robotic Precursor Program (xPRP), astrobiology missions such as the Max-C Mars rover and international programs such as the Exo-Mars.
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