NASA’s Technology Transfer Program solicits inquiries from companies interested in obtaining license rights to commercialize, manufacture and market the following technology. License rights may be issued on an exclusive or nonexclusive basis and may include specific fields of use. NASA provides no funding in conjunction with these potential licenses. THE TECHNOLOGY: An integral field spectrograph (IFG) is an instrument combining spectrographic and imaging capabilities. IFGs provide spectral information over a 2D field of view. In lenslet-based IFS designs, a lenslet array is placed in the spectrograph entrance plane. All beams generated by the lenslet array are fed through a dispersive element and imaged by a camera, resulting in a spectrum for each individual lenslet. Traditional lenslet-based IFS designs stagger the spectra, so they are separated and only partially overlapping. The staggering of the spectra is problematic as one column of the detector will be occupied by different wavelengths of neighboring spectra, where the dynamic range could be quite high. The Lenslet-Based Integral Field Spectrograph improves upon detector pixel efficiency. To express interest in this opportunity, please submit a license application through NASA’s Automated Technology Licensing Application System (ATLAS) by visiting https://technology.nasa.gov/patent/GSC-TOPS-220 If you have any questions, please e-mail NASA’s Technology Transfer Program at
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