Patent ID: 11959801
Assignee: nan
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A hyperspectral imaging system comprising:
a supercontinuum laser source;
at least one lens or mirror configured to propagate light output from the supercontinuum laser source along a transmit path towards one or more objects in a scene; and
a spectrometer configured to receive light from the one or more objects in the scene,
said hyperspectral imaging system configured to generate a spectral image based on light received from said spectrometer,
wherein said supercontinuum laser has an output having a spot size that is elliptical at a distance between about 1 km and about 20 km from the hyperspectral imaging system, and
wherein a lateral dimension of a major axis of the elliptical spot size is less than or equal to 10 times a lateral dimension of a minor axis of the elliptical spot size at a distance between about 1 km and about 20 km from the hyperspectral imaging system.