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Our world would be lost without light. The human eye detects visible light which allows us to see the color and size of objects. But invisible light, like infrared radiation, that our eyes can’t see and is emitted by food, drugs, and other materials, can be filled with hidden information on chemical composition. Possessing the super-vision to detect this light would therefore prove invaluable in many industries such as the agri-food sector. MantiSpectra – a TU/e spin-off company – is developing innovative spectral sensing devices to measure and decode these invisible light signals.
Spectrometers collect light, break it apart, and tease valuable information from it. Here, “light” could be the visible light our eyes detect or invisible electromagnetic waves like infrared radiation, which is used in optical communications and also produced by chemical reactions in crops and in stars like our Sun.
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MantiSpectra: Seeing more with invisible light
Our world would be lost without light. The human eye detects visible light which allows us to see the color and size of objects. But invisible light, like infrared radiation, that our eyes can’t see and is emitted by food, drugs, and other materials, can be filled with hidden information on chemical composition. Possessing the super-vision to detect this light would therefore prove invaluable in many industries such as the agri-food sector. MantiSpectra – a TU/e spin-off company – is developing innovative spectral sensing devices to measure and decode these invisible light signals.