Patent ID: 9157800
Filing Date: 2015-10-13
Classification: G01J,G01N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: collecting a plurality of interacted photons from a sample; separating the plurality of interacted photons into at least a first optical component and a second optical component; passing the first optical component and the second optical component through at least one conformal filter comprising a tunable filter having one or more filter stages and configured to filter one or more of the first optical component and the second optical component to conform to at least one spectral shape associated with an analyte of interest, wherein the configuration of the tunable filter is determined by searching at least one look-up table comprising at least one voltage associated with each stage of the tunable filter where each voltage is configured to cause the tunable filter to conform to a spectral shape associated with the analyte of interest when applied to a corresponding stage; generating a first data set corresponding to the first filtered optical component; generating a second data set corresponding to the second filtered optical component; and applying at least one optical computation to the first data set and the second data set to assess the sample for at least one characteristic of the analyte.