Summary
- Profile Type
- Technology offer
- POD Reference
- TODE20230404014
- Term of Validity
- 4 April 2023 - 5 April 2025
- Company's Country
- Germany
- Type of partnership
- Investment agreement
- Research and development cooperation agreement
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
- The new scalable and monolithically integrable Fourier transform EPIC spectrometer from a German university can be used for analysis in the chemical or food industry. Over a very large optical waveband from 400nm to 2350nm, analyses of water quality or e.g. blood tests in medical technology are possible. The university offers a license and a technology cooperation agreement.
- Full Description
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Integrable Fourier Transform EPIC spectrometers are often used in materials science, biology and medical research to obtain information about the structure and composition of materials and biological tissues.
The new technology from a German university can be used to implement a scalable, monolithically integrable Fourier-transform spectrometer with the necessary coupling structures, an on-chip direct reception, and an NDFT (non-uniform discrete Fourier transform) signal processing unit completely integrated into the chip, making the entire system much smaller and more robust.
The invention allows spectral analysis in the 400 to 2000 nm wavelength range by coupling the measuring signal directly into an optical input. A downstream optical splitter splits the optical signal into two waveguides with different optical properties. Optical couplers positioned between the two waveguides and in which the light from the two waveguides interfere route the resulting light signal to one photodiode for each signal (see Fig. 2). The photodiodes convert this resulting optical signal into an electrical signal. A downstream electronic evaluator uses NDFT to calculate the input signal’s optical spectrum, thus providing spectral analysis in the visible and infrared ranges.
The university offers a license agreement. This technology is aimed at analysis device manufacturers that manufacture and sell optical spectroscopic measuring devices such as Raman spectroscopes for analysis in the chemical or food industries. This method can also be used for water quality and blood analysis in medical technology. If there is interest in further development of the process, the university also offers technological cooperation. - Advantages and Innovations
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Competitive advantages compared to existing processes:
- Complete chip integration
- CMOS-compatible (<100 nm)
- Low optical losses
- Suitable for Raman spectroscopy
- Scalable FT spectrometer
- Large optical range (400-2350 nm) - Stage of Development
- Under development
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Not relevant
- IPR status
- IPR applied but not yet granted
- IPR notes
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A German patent application has been submitted to the German Patent and Trade Mark Office.
Technology Readiness Level 3 / Experimental proof of concept
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
- The university offers a license agreement. This technology is aimed at analysis device manufacturers that manufacture and sell optical spectroscopic measuring devices such as Raman spectroscopes for analysis in the chemical or food industries. This method can also be used for water quality and blood analysis in medical technology. If there is interest in further development of the process, the university also offers technological cooperation.
- Type and Size of Partner
- Big company
- SME <=10
- Other
- SME 11-49
- SME 50 - 249
- Type of partnership
- Investment agreement
- Research and development cooperation agreement
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 09001007 - Optical Technology related to measurements
- 09001006 - Optical material testing
- 05003002 - Optics
- Market keywords
- 03007003 - Other analytical and scientific instrumentation
- 03007002 - Other measuring devices
- Targeted countries
- All countries
