The ERA2 facility: towards application of a fiber-based astronomical spectrograph for imaging spectroscopy in life sciences
Martin M. Roth (1,2), Karl Zenichowski (1), Nicolae Tarcea (3),, J\"urgen Popp (3,4), Silvia Adelhelm (1), Marvin Stolz (1), Andreas Kelz (1),, Christer Sandin (1), Svend-Marian Bauer (1), Thomas Fechner (1), Thomas Jahn, (1), Emil Popow (1), Bernhard Roth (5), Paul Singh (1)
TL;DR
The paper presents the ERA2 facility, a fiber-based astronomical spectrograph adapted for imaging spectroscopy in life sciences, demonstrating potential cross-disciplinary applications of astronomical instrumentation.
Contribution
It introduces a novel lab demonstrator that repurposes high-performance astronomical spectrographs for spatially resolved spectroscopy in life sciences.
Findings
Demonstrated feasibility of using astronomical spectrographs for life sciences
Explored fiber-coupled multi-channel spectroscopy applications
Potential for high sensitivity and stability in biomedical imaging
Abstract
Astronomical instrumentation is most of the time faced with challenging requirements in terms of sensitivity, stability, complexity, etc., and therefore leads to high performance developments that at first sight appear to be suitable only for the specific design application at the telescope. However, their usefulness in other disciplines and for other applications is not excluded. The ERA2 facility is a lab demonstrator, based on a high-performance astronomical spectrograph, which is intended to explore the innovation potential of fiber-coupled multi-channel spectroscopy for spatially resolved spectroscopy in life science, material sciences, and other areas of research.
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