SpectraCube® is the light-related platform technology Applied Spectral Imaging developed.  It is based on spectral imaging. It uses light's unique qualities to display information in an image that you couldn't see before.

With ASI's SpectraCube®, for example, you can distinguish between different materials even if they look identical. Here, in the image below, on the left, it is difficult to differentiate between the red dyes. In the image on the right, the three dyes are classified by the SpectraCube® and then displayed in unique colors.  SpectraCube® reveals crucial information that no other technique can display.

ASI’s Spectral Imaging system is a dual-mode system, i.e including both direct imaging pass (for B/W imaging) as well as Interferometer optical pass (for spectral imaging).

The basic spectral imaging function is achieved using a computer-controlled scanning-mirror, fast-fourier-transform (FFT) interferometer (“optical head”) followed by a charge-coupled-device (CCD) camera, both furnished with the system.  A common-path Sagnac interferometer is used with transmitted and reflected beams traveling along the same path in space,



 
During the process, spectra shall be collected simultaneously at each spatial pixel of the image, without any need for sequential spatial scanning of the sample or the sample illumination. I n other words, the scanning-mirror interferometer shall process the entire input image in parallel.  The system is sensitive to the entire sensitivity range of its CCD, which is 400-1000nm. Maximal deviation of 2nm is achieved along all the spectral range.