NASA SBIR SUCCESS STORY  Kennedy Space Center  
1988 Phase II 

Raman Spectrograph  

EIC Laboratories, Inc. 

Norwood, MA 
 

INNOVATION 
    Rugged, portable, high resolution Raman spectrograph with fiber optic sampling
Spectrograph with fiber optic sensor
Spectrograph with fiber optic sensor
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS 
    • Specific gas-phase sensing of hydrazine and other air   contaminants
    • Novel micro-optics probe head allows “point and shoot” fiber   optic sampling and monitoring from over 500 meters
    • 10 times more compact than prior equipment and no moving  parts
COMMERCIALIZATION 
    • $3 million in sales in last two years
    • Patented Raman probe
    • New company division organized to provide commercial Raman instrumentation and services

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GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS 
    • Space applications: sensing hypergolic vapors; hydrogen monitoring; rapid analysis of minerals; compact, on-board  chemical analysis
    • Commercial applications: chemical process monitoring, pharmaceutical analysis, forensics, environmental site  characterization, and a general laboratory complement to infrared spectroscopy
     
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