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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2015
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (US);
David C. Scott, Pasadena, CA (US);
Alexander Ksendzov, La Crescenta, CA (US);
Warren P. George, Valencia, CA (US);
James A. Smith, Granada Hills, CA (US);
Abdullah S. Aljabri, Pasadena, CA (US);
Joel M. Steinkraus, Azusa, CA (US);
Rudi M. Bendig, Simi Valley, CA (US);
Douglas C. Hofmann, Pasadena, CA (US);
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (US);
Abstract
A portable spectrometer, including a smart phone case storing a portable spectrometer, wherein the portable spectrometer includes a cavity; a source for emitting electromagnetic radiation that is directed on a sample in the cavity, wherein the electromagnetic radiation is reflected within the cavity to form multiple passes of the electromagnetic radiation through the sample; a detector for detecting the electromagnetic radiation after the electromagnetic radiation has made the multiple passes through the sample in the cavity, the detector outputting a signal in response to the detecting; and a device for communicating the signal to a smart phone, wherein the smart phone executes an application that performs a spectral analysis of the signal.