Support the education of your future employees.

Companies have long relied on academic programs to provide trained employees. When trained with relevant, modern skills, graduates of these programs can minimize costs to businesses, including recruiting and on-the-job training expenses. Particularly in technical roles, such as optics, a pipeline from academia to industry may be created through partnerships among the academic program and the regional industries.

A Deep Ultraviolet Raman and Fluorescence Spectral Library of 51 Organic Compounds for the SHERLOC Instrument Onboard Mars 2020.

We report deep ultraviolet (DUV) Raman and Fluorescence spectra obtained on a SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals) analog instrument for 51 pure organic compounds, including 5 carboxylic acids, 10 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, 24 amino acids, 6 nucleobases, and 6 different grades of macromolecular carbon from humic acid to graphite. Organic mixtures were not investigated. We discuss how the DUV fluorescence and Raman spectra exhibited by different organic compounds allow for detection, classification, and identification of organics by SHERLOC.

Calibration of the SHERLOC Deep Ultraviolet Fluorescence-Raman Spectrometer on the Rover.

We describe the wavelength calibration of the spectrometer for the scanning of habitable environments with Raman and luminescence for organics and chemicals (SHERLOC) instrument onboard NASA's Rover. SHERLOC utilizes deep ultraviolet Raman and fluorescence (DUV R/F) spectroscopy to enable analysis of samples from the Martian surface. SHERLOC employs a 248.

Engineering and laboratory notes: introduction.

Engineering & Laboratory Notes are introduced as a new monthly feature of Applied Optics.

Uncertainty analysis in the measurement of the spatial responsivity of infrared antennas.

The measurement of a two-dimensional spatial responsivity map of infrared antennas can be accomplished by use of an iterative deconvolution algorithm. The inputs of this algorithm are the spatial distribution of the laser beam irradiance illuminating the antenna-coupled detector and a map of the measured detector response as it moves through the illuminating beam. The beam irradiance distribution is obtained from knife-edge measurements of the beam waist region; this data set is fitted to a model of the beam.