Ocean Optics wants to have fun with their inventions, and so their mesmerizing display at the San Francisco Moscone Center (take a virtual tour) for the world's leading photonics, laser and biomedical optics event - Photonics West - is bound to catch your eye. This is the company that has made the world's smallest spectrometer, a miniature instrument that measures properties of light to identify material. Chief Technoloy Officer Jason M. Eichenholtz and Chief Operating Officer Richard Pollard were on hand to walk through some of the amazing instruments produced by this firm in a pre-view of the Ocean Optics booth. They have spectrometers that can measure water on the moon, with plans for something on Mars. Their instruments can analyze your blood or determine the color of paint used on your cell phone.
There is little doubt that the advances this company has made in spectroscopy, the measurement of radiation, are on the order of "Super Hero". Indeed, the Ocean Optics booth at Phototonics West is appropriately numbered #1007. Several "Super Hero characters" that comprise "The League of Light" will be at the Moscone Center January 25th and capes will be handed out to the visitors with a chance to win an iPad. The purpose of The League of Light is to "empower customers to discover without limits". The company's phenomemal outreach includes a Film and Photo Contest using a spectrometer and outlines and handbooks for student science labs on Spectroscopy.
Photonics West is a fascinating and important showcase where exhibitors display the latest in photonic technology for generating, transmitting, detecting and sensing light. This field began with the invention of the laser in the 1960's - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Photonic instruments range from digital cameras to instruments for the advancement of biomedicine such as laser surgery, bar code scanners, laser defense, and fiber optic communication.
Take a look at Spectroscopy TV and dive into the ocean of optics and lasers. And watch the first episode of The League of Light.
BOOMF, POW and BLAMMO!
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