Ocean Optics, the industry leader in miniature spectroscopy, recently provided a Jaz Modular Sensing Suite to the trek crew of Return to Everest 2009 – a crew including Keith Cowing, Miles O’Brien, NASA astronaut Scott Parazynski, and others – to measure solar irradiance at extreme altitude.
Jaz was utilized to determine UV intensity levels in the [...]

A custom-engineered spectrometer from Ocean Optics, part of the scientific payload on NASA’s Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, was successfully launched into space Thursday from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.  “ALICE,” as the spectrometer is affectionately known, was drafted for the mission to help analyze the makeup of the [...]

Now available from Ocean Optics is a complete line of optical-sensing systems and components that addresses the needs of the growing market for photovoltaic solar cells – from characterization of the thin films comprising such cells to measurement of the spectral output of solar simulators.
Ocean Optics is the inventor of the world’s first miniature fiber [...]