Detectors & Imaging

Hyperspectral imaging benefits from new cooperation between Gooch & Housego and PhiLumina

April 8, 2014

Gooch & Housego and PhiLumina have signed a collaborative agreement to expand their capabilities and offerings for spectral imaging applications.

Conard Holton

Gooch & Housego (G&H; Orlando, FL and Ilminster, England) and PhiLumina (Gulfport, MS) have signed a collaborative agreement to expand their capabilities and offerings for spectral imaging applications. As a result, PhiLumina will be able to integrate G&H’s high speed acousto-optical tunable filter (AOTF) based spectral imaging technology into its spectral imaging platform to expand its client base. In return, G&H will offer PhiLumina’s modular and customizable spectral imaging software platform to its customers. In addition, PhiLumina will be able to offer its other spectral imaging systems and technologies through G&H marketing and distribution channels.

“This collaborative agreement will allow G&H to deliver better on its promise of fully application-specific spectral imaging tools for its user base," explains Alex Fong, senior vice president of G&H Life Sciences and Instrumentation division. "G&H’s solid-state AOTF technology allows rapid sequential and non-sequential center wavelength access and selectable bandwidth sizes. It also enables direct triggering of camera hardware after each wavelength is acquired to maximize speed, allowing hyperspectral data sets to be acquired as quickly as the camera can acquire images, which opens the door for novel methodologies, such as real-time unmixing."

PhiLumina provides turnkey hyperspectral imaging systems, service, support, and software, and is currently working to release a line of intelligent imaging systems and real-time hyperspectral applications. PhiLumina’s products are certified by the Space Foundation and are used in the NASA Spinoff program, which in part demonstrates the ability to apply aerospace technology in various environments.

Source: Gooch & Housego

About the Author

Conard Holton | Editor at Large

Conard Holton has 25 years of science and technology editing and writing experience. He was formerly a staff member and consultant for government agencies such as the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and the International Atomic Energy Agency, and engineering companies such as Bechtel. He joined Laser Focus World in 1997 as senior editor, becoming editor in chief of WDM Solutions, which he founded in 1999. In 2003 he joined Vision Systems Design as editor in chief, while continuing as contributing editor at Laser Focus World. Conard became editor in chief of Laser Focus World in August 2011, a role in which he served through August 2018. He then served as Editor at Large for Laser Focus World and Co-Chair of the Lasers & Photonics Marketplace Seminar from August 2018 through January 2022. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, with additional studies at the Colorado School of Mines and Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.