Computational reconfigurable imaging spectrometer

We demonstrate a novel hyperspectral imaging spectrometer based on computational imaging that enables sensitive measurements from smaller, noisier, and less-expensive components (e.g. uncooled microbolometers), making it useful for applications such as small space and air platforms with strict size, weight, and power requirements. The computational reconfigurable imaging spectrometer (CRISP) system exploits platform motion and a spectrally coded focal-plane mask to temporally modulate the optical spectrum, enabling simultaneous measurement of multiple spectral bins. Demodulation of this coded pattern returns an optical spectrum in each pixel.