Date: Dec 01, 2008 Source: Company Data (
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Maxion Technologies supported the environmental monitoring project at the Beijing Olympics by providing its state-of-the-art lasers. The project, headed by a team from the Mid-InfraRed Technologies for Health and the Environment (MIRTHE) Center, Monitored the levels of ozone, ammonia, carbon dioxide and nitric oxide in the atmosphere at the Beijing Olympics.
"Environmental monitoring is a key application enabled by Maxion's laser technology. We are very excited to have been a part of this worthwhile endeavor. We are also proud to be a partner at MIRTHE which is pushing the frontiers of Mid-Infrared technologies for very important applications." says Sohrab Zarrabian, Chief Executive Officer of Maxion Technologies.
MIRTHE is a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center headquartered at Princeton University, with partners City College New York, Johns Hopkins University, Rice, Texas A&M, and the University of Maryland Baltimore County. The center encompasses a world-class team of engineers, chemists, physicists, environmental and bio-engineers, and clinicians. MIRTHE's goal is to develop Mid-Infrared (3-30 µm) optical trace gas sensing systems based on new technologies such as quantum cascade lasers or quartz enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy, with the ability to detect minute amounts of chemicals found in the environment or atmosphere, emitted from spills, combustion, or natural sources, or exhaled.
