You clearly have no idea of the application. It's a transcutaneous spectrometer for noninvasive measurement of blood glucose, alcohol, and possibly other constituents. A 700-nm laser is of no use at all.
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Phil Hobbs
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The laser does not have to be at 2 microns, 700 nm should go through the grating as well and the camera chip can be monochrome (grayscale).
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Thanks; i was pretty sure you didn't miss that, but i regularly work with engineers who can't fathom such a simple technique.
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The 700 nm laser is NOT to make the transcutaneous measurement, it is to measure the angle of the grating internal to the device only. Closed loop servo. Now i get why you didn't hear what i was trying to say.
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An optical encoder would be a possibility, true. The difficulty with cottage-industry methods like that is that they take a surprising amount of (expensive) development to make them into a product. Things like assembly tolerances, imager location uncertainty, and the motion of fringes and speckle are easy to deal with in a proto but harder in a real device.
One potentially interesting method would be to use an auxiliary single-mode fibre to look at the specular reflection. That would eliminate pointing instability, but it would have to fit inside the aperture of the spectrometer. There might be a second-order diffracted peak we could sense, but all of that is way beyond the capabilities of these folks.
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Phil Hobbs
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