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Development and Optical Testing of the Camera, Hand Lens, and Microscope Probe with Scannable Laser Spectroscopy (CHAMP-SLS)Conducting high resolution field microscopy with coupled laser spectroscopy that can be used to selectively analyze the surface chemistry of individual pixels in a scene is an enabling capability for next generation robotic and manned spaceflight missions, civil, and military applications. In the laboratory, we use a range of imaging and surface preparation tools that provide us with in-focus images, context imaging for identifying features that we want to investigate at high magnification, and surface-optical coupling that allows us to apply optical spectroscopic analysis techniques for analyzing surface chemistry particularly at high magnifications. The camera, hand lens, and microscope probe with scannable laser spectroscopy (CHAMP-SLS) is an imaging/spectroscopy instrument capable of imaging continuously from infinity down to high resolution microscopy (resolution of approx. 1 micron/pixel in a final camera format), the closer CHAMP-SLS is placed to a feature, the higher the resultant magnification. At hand lens to microscopic magnifications, the imaged scene can be selectively interrogated with point spectroscopic techniques such as Raman spectroscopy, microscopic Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (micro-LIBS), laser ablation mass-spectrometry, Fluorescence spectroscopy, and/or Reflectance spectroscopy. This paper summarizes the optical design, development, and testing of the CHAMP-SLS optics.
Document ID
20150008636
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Paper
External Source(s)
Authors
Mungas, Greg S.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Gursel, Yekta
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Sepulveda, Cesar A.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Anderson, Mark
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
La Baw, Clayton
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Johnson, Kenneth R.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Deans, Matthew
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Beegle, Luther
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Boynton, John
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
May 20, 2015
Publication Date
August 10, 2008
Subject Category
Optics
Instrumentation And Photography
Meeting Information
Meeting: SPIE Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology Conference
Location: San Diego, CA
Country: United States
Start Date: August 10, 2008
End Date: August 14, 2008
Sponsors: International Society for Optical Engineering
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
Fluorescence
microscopy
mass-spectrometry
Raman
laser ablation
micro-LIBS

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