Patent ID: 7649618

Claim:
A system comprising: a light source that illuminates a sample with a plurality of photons to thereby generate scattered photons from the sample; a frame transfer CCD having an image array and a storage array; an optical lens that collects said scattered photons and directs said scattered photons to the image array; at least one controller that transfers a Raman data set representative of said scattered photons from the image array to the storage array; and a fiber array spectral translator device coupled between said optical lens and said frame transfer CCD, wherein said fiber array spectral translator device includes a two-dimensional array of optical fibers drawn into a one-dimensional fiber stack so as to effectively convert a two-dimensional field of view into a curvilinear field of view, and wherein said two-dimensional array of optical fibers is configured to receive said photons collected by said optical lens and transfer the received photons out of said fiber array spectral translator device and to said frame transfer CCD through said one-dimensional fiber stack.