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MONSTR Sense Technologies develops optical measurement tools for analyzing mixtures and measuring ultrafast dynamics at the nanoscale.

We offer the only commercial resonant transient absorption spectroscopy that is capable of being coupled into a microscope. Our flagship product is a multi-functional collinear (single-beam) spectrometer that can be used with just about any ultrafast laser and can also be coupled into a microscope. This spectrometer is useful for measuring gas phase and solid state systems; it also has a unique prowess in discerning optical features in spectra that would generally be washed out by spectral inhomogeneity.

Latest News

May 14, 2020

MONSTR Sense has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to conduct research and development work on a rapid imaging microscope designed for defect inspection in semiconductors and for ultrafast scientific investigations. Stay tuned for updates.

May 12-14, 2020

MONSTR Sense presented a product showcase demonstration at CLEO this year! Check out the recording here.

April 17, 2020

We have been featured in an article by Laura Cowan in Cronicle Tech News!

August 4-9, 2019

MONSTR Sense is a proud sponsor of the Fundamental Optical Properties Semiconductor (FOPS) Conference in Banff, Canada!

June 17-21, 2019

MONSTR Sense is a proud sponsor of the International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy at UIUC.

May 2019

Check out our article, Single-Beam Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy, published in Photonics Spectra!

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Coherent spectroscopy is useful for label-free chemical identification and measuring disordered systems. Explore how our technology can be used to measure semiconductors, molecules, and bacteria.

About Us

Our technologies couple optics and RF electronics to measure optical signals with interferometric precision in a robust way. Using frequency-comb techniques we have developed a single-laser multidimensional spectroscopy without optical gratings or calibration requirements.

The company is named after original JILA-MONSTR developed in Steve Cundiff's lab in 2009. Though a powerful device for spectroscopy, we have developed a new technique with equivalent or better capabilities and greater versatility. Our new technique creates a single beam that can be coupled with a microscope or directed at a distance.

In 2017 our team realized that technology we had been developing at the University of Michigan for science could be extended to a broader range of scientific fields, including biology and medicine, and to industry applications for quality control and chemical identification. We started MONSTR Sense technologies with the goal of improving the accessibility of ultrafast spectroscopy.