SSI is honored to receive a prestigious R&D100 Award for its new Segmented Tunable Filter, distinguishing it as one of the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year. This electro-optical filter is an innovation capable of simultaneously collecting spatial and spectral information while providing high spectral resolution and rapid tuning. Based on Fabry-Perot technology, this next-generation tunable optical filter achieves multiple, independently tunable filter segments on a single substrate. The patented technology is intended for use as the key dispersive element in hybrid multi-spectral
imaging systems.
Segmented Tunable Filter
- Extension of award-winning
LCFP technology - Multiple independently-tunable segments on a single substrate
- Arbitrary size, shape, and number of segments
- Each segment can be tuned to any wavelength within the operating range of the filter
- Simultaneous collection of spatial and spectral information
- Ideal for multi-spectral and hyper-spectral imaging applications
- Very high spectral resolution
- Rapid, solid-state tuning
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Imaging Spectrograph
Compact, Meridional Spectrograph has spectral resolution of less than 2 nm in the visible region and can image a 180˚ slice of sky onto 1392 x 1040 pixel CCD
Walden Small All-Sky Imager
All-Sky Imager with filter wheel. Images entire 180˚ field of view onto 1392 x 1040 pixel CCD
Lowell FPI
Red-Line (6300Å) Fabry-Perot Interferometer
Liquid Crystal Fabry-Perot (LCFP)
LCFP tunable filter with thermal case and electronic connection. The LC is sandwiched between two glass substrates to form an etalon