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Happy 4th of July to those of you who celebrate! As a US-based company, MONSTR Sense Technologies is proud that all of our products are Made in America.
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SHARLIE joins our product line-up to fill the pressing need for delay generation with high precision and low dispersion for researchers in the ultrafast optics community. This customer-inspired product generates delays up to 20 picoseconds with <20 attosecond interferometric stability and less than 110 fs2 of dispersion across the entire VIS-NIR range (440 - 1020 nm). These specs enable dispersion-free measurement of broadband resonances with degenerate, high-bandwidth pump and probe pulses.
Initially developed for Boise State University, SHARLIE went from delivery to publication in less than six months. Check out the paper on ultra-broadband multidimensional coherent spectroscopy using the SHARLIE Interferometric Delay Stage, which has been featured as a Spotlight on Optics, here.
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Patrick Treado, Ph.D. and Matthew Clark, Ph.D. joining MONSTR Sense Technologies
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MONSTR Sense Technologies announces new COO
MONSTR Sense is excited to announce that Patrick Treado, Ph.D. will be joining us as Chief Operating Officer (COO) this July. Dr. Treado brings decades of experience as founder and leader of ChemImage Corporation, developing and commercializing performance-leading hyperspectral imaging systems for a range of applications, including clinical diagnostics, medical imaging, forensics, food and pharmaceutical materials analysis, drug detection, explosives detection, pathogen detection, and semiconductor material analysis. He is the author of more than 130 publications and inventor on more than 190 patents. We look forward to Dr. Treado sharing his expertise with us and helping move MONSTR Sense Technologies forward.
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MONSTR Sense Technologies grows its R&D Team
Matthew Clark, Ph.D., is joining MONSTR Sense as an Optical Research Scientist. Matthew joins us from Dr. Chi Zhang's lab at Purdue University, bringing vast nonlinear and biomedical imaging experience to MONSTR Sense. We look forward to Matt bringing his skills to MONSTR Sense's growing R&D Team. You can check out some of his previous work on pulse-picking multimodal nonlinear optical microscopy, real-time precision opto-control of chemical processes in live cells, and spatiotemporally precise optical manipulation of intracellular molecular activities.
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Digital (FPGAs) killed the analog star
Signal processing and control that requires low-noise electronics used to be best solved with careful analog circuit design. This is no longer the case. Low noise digitizers with the right amplification can achieve shot-noise limited digitization of electrical signals. All signal processing steps beyond digitization are deterministic and introduce no new noise. At MONSTR Sense, we extensively use Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) for optical signal processing and control to have computer-controlled functionality, while benefitting from improved noise and speed. To provide a sampling of conventionally analog applications that we solve with FPGAs: The PID loops in SHARLIE are digital with software-controlled filter parameters; the box lock-in we developed for rapid imaging applications, with computer control to switch over to exponential lock-in, change the time constant, and more; Galvo steering in NESSIE that can be triggered by stage motion (for high-speed wafer scanning) and that can trigger data collection. All this performance fits on a standard FPGA board connected to a custom MONSTR Sense low-noise digitization board.
One challenge with FPGAs is the steep learning curve. If you are looking to shift, but don't know where to start, reach out! For slower digital applications at less than 48 kHz, you can also try using a Digital Signal Processor (DSP) evaluation board. Audio codecs are fantastic digitizers, and these boards typically have easy software to implement.
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MONSTR Sense at CLEO 2024 and Advanced Material Characterization 2024
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MONSTR Sense had two presentations at the CLEO 2024 Conference, and three of us attended the technical conference. CLEO 2024 was a great opportunity to talk with researchers about their ultrafast spectroscopy and imaging needs, and we enjoyed learning about the newest trends in semiconductors, material science, and bio-imaging.
We were also a proud Platinum Sponsor and Exhibitor at the Advanced Material Characterization (AMC) Workshop 2024 at the Materials Research Lab at UIUC. At the AMC Workshop, Optical Research Scientist Torben Purz, Ph.D., had the opportunity to educate researchers from around the world about the capabilities of our KRAKEN Turnkey Ultrafast Microscope. Learn more about the upcoming release of the KRAKEN Microscope here.
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Ultrabroadband two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy in the pump–probe geometry using conventional optics
Researchers from Boise State University demonstrate the capabilities of MONSTR Sense's SHARLIE high-precision interferometric delay stage. The paper uses the high precision and low dispersion of SHARLIE to demonstrate ultrabroadband 2DES in a standard pump-probe geometry. This open-access paper, which can be found here, was chosen as a Spotlight on Optics and was published in Optics Letters.
CLEO Conference Talks on Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy
Some of our customers gave great talks at the CLEO 2024 Conference. Giuseppe Fumero from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) presented on Many-Body Effects in Copropagating Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy of Microcavity Polaritons. Adam Alfrey from the University of Michigan gave a talk on Control of Many-Particle States in MoSe2 Monolayer Observed by Double-Quantum Spectroscopy.
Optica Webinar on Moiré Superlattice and Ultrafast Spectroscopy coming up on July 9 from 10-11 AM EDT: REGISTER NOW
Prof. Xiaoqin (Elaine) Li will be presenting "Ultrafast Dynamics of Excited States in Semiconductor Moiré Superlattice" in a webinar for the Optica Ultrafast Technical Group. Register here.
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Summer Events
Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy, June 24-28, 2024
MONSTR Sense Technologies was an exhibitor at this year's CMDS conference in York, UK. We brought the SHARLIE ultra-broadband, high-precision interferometric delay stage.
Fundamental Optical Processes in Semiconductors (FOPS), July 21-26, 2024
MONSTR Sense Technologies will be an exhibitor at this year's FOPS conference in St. Johns, Canada. Visit our booth to learn more about our product line-up, aiding researchers to understand fundamental processes in their materials.
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