POLYCHROMIX LAUNCHES REVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO SPECTROSCOPY
Polychromix®, Inc., a leading developer of advanced wavelength management solutions for optical systems, announced the launch of its Near Infrared Digital Transform Spectrometer (DTS)™ product family, delivering a compact and versatile chemical analysis system at an unprecedented low cost. The DTS™ product family is powered by Polychromix’s proven, state-of-the art telecommunication MEMS technology.
Building on its expertise in optical telecommunication applications, Polychromix is now offering a revolutionary alternative to conventional spectroscopy methods. Spectroscopy is widely used in a broad variety of applications from laboratories to industrial process control including material identification, quantitative analysis, purity analysis, quality control, and material inspection. Polychromix’s DTS™ technology uses an innovative MEMS spatial light modulator in a portable form factor, featuring a single InGaAs detector and no moving parts. In addition, devices feature low power consumption, utilizing a standard USB connection for both communications and power interfaces.
The DTS™ devices are currently targeted at general purpose spectroscopy applications. In addition, numerous customer engagements are in progress to implement industry specific process control applications ranging from flue gas monitoring to trans-fat content in food analysis.
“Polychromix identified a need within the spectroscopy market to provide a portable, cost-effective and highly efficient spectroscopy device, and found that our proven MEMS architecture was a perfect fit to fill the void current spectroscopy solutions provide,” said Mouli Ramani, VP of Marketing and Business Development at Polychromix. “Polychromix is expanding its market opportunity beyond telecommunication applications because of the versatility of our optical MEMS platform, which has been providing benefits to vendors and telecommunication carriers for some time now. The opportunities within the spectroscopy market are significant, and we are confident the market will embrace the Polychromix DTS™ in the same fashion as it embraced our telecommunication family of products.”
As a fully programmable solution, the DTS™ product family can be configured to operated in various scanning modes including a Monochromator mode, NDIR mode, chemometric mode and digital transform mode. This flexibility enables the user to configure the device optimally to a broad set of new applications.
The DTS™ product family consists of three spectrometer versions, the DTS™-1700 covering the 900-1700 nanometers NIR range, the DTS™ 2500 covering the 1700-2500 nanometers NIR range and the DTS™-NB a high resolution version for specific narrowband applications within the NIR spectrum.
Polychromix will be launching the DTS™ product line at the upcoming PittCon conference from Feb. 28 through March 4 at Booth# 4595 and in the Ocean Optics booth #2989. Polychromix is offering the DTS™ units at the Pittcon show at an introductory price of $5,000 – $7,500 depending on specific configurations. Pricing of the DTS™ family is expected to remain below $10,000 after the Pittcon show as well.
About Polychromix
Polychromix, a privately held advanced optical technology company headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts, offers modular optical subsystems based on an innovative core technology platform that enable dynamically re-configurable optical devices. Polychromix’s suite of Channel Management Solutions addresses the capital and operating expense challenges that both telecommunication carriers and network systems vendors face. Additionally, they help enable the creation and rapid provisioning of new revenue-generating services. Carriers can dynamically provision and control optical channels remotely from a network operating center, effectively replacing “truck rolls” (sending out maintenance trucks) with “key strokes” (entered at a network operating center terminal). Further applications extended to Chemical Spectroscopy, enabling unprecedented cost effective solutions. For more information, visit www.polychromix.com
