SpectraSensors Licenses JPL Laser-based Gas Sensor Technology
Source: SpectraSensors, Inc.
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech; Pasadena, CA) and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL; Pasadena, CA) have licensed a diode-laser-based gas sensor technology to SpectraSensors, Inc. (Altadena, CA) for commercialization. JPL developed the technology to measure the composition of the atmospheres of Mars and Earth. SpectraSensors will be targeting oil and gas pipeline monitoring, industrial process control, smokestack monitoring, environmental monitoring, atmospheric science, aircraft safety and medicine.
NASA has used the tunable diode laser-based gas sensor on aircraft and on weather balloons to study weather and climate, global warming and emissions from aircraft. Early this December, the Mars Polar Lander and two Deep Space 2 microprobes will land on Mars, where the tunable diode laser-based sensors will measure water vapor and carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere and soil.
In a related story, Randy May, former principal investigator on the Mars gas sensing experiment, has joined SpectraSensors, Inc. as director of product development while continuing as part of the Mars landing science team. Carl Kukkonen, former director of JPL's Center for Space Microelectronics Technology, is SpectraSensors' president and CEO.
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