99--TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OPPORTUNITY MICRORING THINFILM SPECTROMETER ARRAY

NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA solicits interest from companiesinterested in obtaining license rights to commercialize, manufacture and market thefollowing technology. License rights may be issued on an exclusive or nonexclusive basisand may include specific fields of use. THE TECHNOLOGY: NASA Langley researchers have developed a novel spectral analysis system that providesrapid multi-spectral analysis and imaging, in a miniaturized system design. Typicalspectrometers make use of linear gratings with linear slits or charge-coupled device(CCD) arrays to separate and detect light in its component wavelengths to build aspectrum across a range of wavelengths.Such conventional spectrometers are difficult to miniaturize below a few centimeters.Creating an image with these systems also requires physical rastering of the light beamand detection system across an area to build up the individual data points of an image.The NASA Micro-Ring Thin-Film Spectrometer technology makes use of a micro-ring gratingto separate the component wavelengths of the light signal for detection and spectralanalysis. Due to the miniaturized design obtained by Fresnel diffraction, an array ofthese micro-ring grating-based spectrometers can be constructed to enable extremelysmall-size multi-spectral imaging of an analysis area.To express interest in this opportunity, please respond to Sean Sullivan, ResearchTriangle International (RTI), at: NASA Langley Research Center, Strategic RelationshipsOffice (SRSO), 17 West Taylor St., Mail Stop 218, Building 1212, Room 110 Hampton,Virginia, E-mail: [email protected], or phone: 757-864-5055. Please indicate thedate and title of the FBO notice and include your company and contact information.RTI is responsible for aggregating and acknowledging all responses. These responses areprovided to members of NASA Langleys Innovative Partnerships Office within the SRO forthe purpose of promoting public awareness of our technology products, and conductingpreliminary market research to determine public interest in and potential for futurelicensing opportunities. If direct licensing interest results from this posting, SRO willfollow the formal licensing process of posting in the Federal Register as required. Nofollow-on procurement is expected to result from responses to this Notice.