Patent ID: 8743358

Claim:
A system comprising: a first subsystem comprising: a first collection optics configured to collect a first plurality of interacted photons from a first location comprising at least one unknown material, wherein the first plurality of interacted photons comprise optical components in a plurality of polarization alignments, a first polarization assembly configured to: receive the first plurality of interacted photons, separate the first plurality of interacted photons into a first optical component and a second optical component, and transmit the first optical component with a first polarization alignment and the second optical component with a second polarization alignment, a first optical filter configured to receive the second optical component and transmit at least a portion of the second optical component having a first wavelength, a second optical filter configured to receive the second optical component and transmit at least a portion of the second optical component having a second wavelength, at least one short wave infrared detector configured to detect at least one of the first optical component and the second optical component and generate a SWIR data set representative of the first location; a second subsystem comprising: an illumination source configured to illuminate a second location comprising at least one unknown material to generate a second plurality of interacted photons, a second collection optics configured to collect the second plurality of interacted photons, a fiber array spectral translator device, wherein the device further comprises 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 the two dimensional array of optical fibers is configured to receive a plurality of photons and transfer the photons out of the fiber array spectral translator device, a spectrometer comprising an entrance slit coupled to the one-dimensional end of the fiber stack, wherein the spectrometer is configured to generate a plurality of Raman spectra, and a Raman detector configured to detect the photons from the spectrometer and generate a Raman data set representative of the second location; a third subsystem comprising: a third collection optics configured to collect a third plurality of interacted photons from a third location, a long wave infrared detector configured to detect the third plurality of interacted photons and generate a LWIR data set representative of the third location.