This page outlines the entire Southwest Sciences company web site as of February 2009.

Home Page Overview and what's new.

Meet our People

Links to the resumes of the staff:

• Alan Stanton, President
• Joel Silver, Executive Vice President
• Kris Peterson, Vice President, Business Development
• Chris Hovde, Principal Research Scientist
• Dan Kane, Principal Research Scientist
• Mark Paige, Principal Research Scientist
• Shin-Juh Chen, Senior Research Scientist
• Steve Massick, Senior Research Scientist
• Chuanyong Huang,, Research Scientist
• Mary K. Silver, Treasurer
• Vickie LeDoux, Office Manager
• ulie Dangaran, Administrative Assistant

Products and Services What we can do for you:

• Research and development services Call us to talk about your research needs.
• SWSpectrum software for spectral lineshape computation and display
• Custom Instruments form We'll design instruments to meet your most challenging requirements

Research An overview of our research projects and capabilities.

• Research Projects examples of recent and ongoing work
• VCSEL hygrometer that operates on the HIAPER GV from the surface to the lower stratosphere.
  • Flight testing of the VCSEL hygrometer.
• Hygrometer for weather balloons Ulta-low cost, ultra-light weight, battery powered hygrometer can launch on a standard weather balloon.
• Imaging flame chemistry in two dimensions Mapping water vapor and other species in microgravity flames.
• Low-G Movie Water vapor imaged in a microgravity flame, with both temporal and spatial resolution.
• Measuring methane emitted from Arctic tundra Diode-laser based measurement of greenhouse gases in northern Alaska.
• Measuring moisture in semiconductor feed gas Part per billion quantification of water vapor in nitrogen and other gases.
• Optical Coherence Tomography Novel methods for imaging structures for medical, biological, and material science applications
• Papers A list of company publications.
• Sponsors The organizations that have funded our research activities.
• Collaborators Links to scientists with whom we have worked. Frequency-resolved optical gating, an ultrafast laser diagnostic.

Technology Tutorials on the technology underpinning our research and our patented inventions.

• Laser Sensing Tutorial
• FROG tutorial
  • Detail of the FROG apparatus
• Patents
  • "Broadband External Cavity Diode Laser " J. S. Pilgrim and D. J. Kane, U. S. Patent 7,245,642, issued July 17, 2007.
  • "Envelope Functions for Modulation Spectroscopy," D. C. Hovde, U. S. Patent 7,230,711, issued June 12, 2007.
  • "Fire Alarm Algorithm using Smoke and Gas Sensors," S. J. Chen, U. S. Patent 7,142,105, issued November 28, 2006.
  • "Optical Absorbance Sensitivity and Reliability Improvement via Rotation of Sample Container," M. E. Paige, D. S. Bomse and J. A. Silver, U. S. Patent 7,126,685, issued Oct. 24, 2006.
  • "Determination of Fit Basis Functions," D. J. Kane and D. C. Hovde, U. S. Patent 7,092,852, issued August 15, 2006.
  • "Method and Apparatus for Imaging Internal Structures of Transparent and Translucent Materials," D. J. Kane, A. B. Vakhtin and K. A. Petersen, U. S. Patent 7,079,254, issued July 18,2006.
  • "Determination of Fit Basis Functions," D. J. Kane and D. C. Hovde, U. S. Patent 7,003,436, issued February 21, 2006.
  • "Envelope Functions for Modulation Spectroscopy," D. C. Hovde, U. S. Patent 6,940,599, issued September 6, 2005.
  • "Discrete Wavelength-Locked External Cavity Laser," J. S. Pilgrim and J. A. Silver, U. S. Patent 6,914,917, issued July 5, 2005.
  • "Wavelength Agile External Cavity Diode Laser," J. S. Pilgrim and D. B. Oh, U. S. Patent 6,683,895, issued January 27,2004.
  • "Acoustic Resonance Frequency Locked Photoacoustic Spectrometer," J. S. Pilgrim, D. S. Bomse and J. A. Silver, U. S. Patent 6,618,148, issued September 9, 2003.
  • "Filtering to Measure Gas Concentrations from Spectral Features," D. C. Hovde, U. S. Patent 6,615,142, issued September 2, 2003.
  • "Tone Burst Diode Laser Spectroscopy," D. C. Hovde, U. S. Patent 6,611,335, issued August 26, 2003.
  • "Acoustic Resonance Phase Locked Photoacoustic Spectrometer," J. S. Pilgrim, D. S. Bomse, and J. A. Silver, U. S. Patent 6,608,683, issued August 19, 2003.
  • "Electro-Optic Electric Field Probe," D. J. Kane, U. S. Patent 6,587,258, Issued July, 2003.
  • "Wavelength Modulated Photoacoustic Spectrometer", J. S. Pilgrim and D. S. Bomse, U. S. patent 6,552,792 issued April 22, 2003.
  • "Wavelength modulation spectroscopy with multiple harmonic detection,," J. A. Silver and D. S. Bomse, U. S. Patent 6,356,350, issued March 12, 2002.
  • "Dual-modulation laser line-locking technique for wavelength modulation spectroscopy,," D. S. Bomse, D. C. Hovde and J. A. Silver, U. S. Patent 6,351,309, issued February 26, 2002.
  • "Method and apparatus for determining wave characteristics from wave phenomena,," D. J. Kane, U. S. Patent 6,219,142, issued April, 2001.
  • "Phaseless wavelength modulation spectroscopy,," D. S. Bomse, U. S. Patent 5,973,782 issued October, 1999.
  • "Dual-modulation laser line-locking for wavelength modulation spectroscopy," D. S. Bomse and J. A. Silver, U. S. Patent 5,969,825, issued October, 1999.
  • "Process for reducing interfering signals in optical measurements of water vapor," D. C. Hovde, D. J. Kane and J. A. Silver, U. S. Patent 5,804,702, issued September, 1998.
  • "Mass Spectrometric Method and Apparatus," D. S. Bomse, J. A. Silver and A. C. Stanton, U. S. Patent 5,015,848, issued May, 1991; U. K. Patent 2237882 B, issued April, 1994; German Patent DE 40 32 491 C2, issued July, 1998.
  • "Laser Absorption Detection Enhancing Apparatus and Method," J. A. Silver and A. C. Stanton, U. S. Patent 4,934,816, issued June, 1990.
• Licensing Opportunities

Commercial Partnerships

• Delta F Our laser gas sensing technology is used to measure water vapor contamination as low as one part per billion in this product for the semiconductor industry.
• LI-COR Biosciences® has developed the LI-7700 open-path CH4 analyzer for measuring methane fluxes over ecosystems.
• Southern Cross Portable natural gas leak detector for pipeline leak checking.
• Mesa Photonics--Industry-leading VideoFROG software and hardware for ultrafast pulse analysis.

Contact- How to contact us

• Employment opportunities Job openings are posted here
• Site Guide This list

Contact Information

Southwest Sciences, Inc.

1570 Pacheco St., Suite E-11, Santa Fe, NM 87505

tel. (505) 984-1322/ fax (505) 988-9230
e-mail info@swsciences.com

 

 

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