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Many of our customers work in the industrial and military markets. At Innovations in Optics, our breadth of experience enables us to understand their requirements and efficiently deliver an optimal solution. Case StudyA client approached us to design and construct prototypes for an environmental monitoring system that determines pathogens for on-line sensors to quantify bacterial counts during industrial processing. The goal was to improve the collection efficiency and uniformity as compared with the existing system that used a commercial camera zoom lens, which suffered from vignetting, distortion, and field flatness.The key to success on this project was our in-depth system-level perspective. We understood the intricacies of lens design and illumination optics, electronics, mechanics, and critical elements of spectroscopy in developing an ideal solution. We maximized illumination uniformity over the grating surface, which significantly improved the overall system performance. The test results for the system validated the theoretical predictions, as the uniformity exceeded the ±5% goal. In addition, testing of the collection efficiency revealed an order of magnitude improvement.
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