About DRS Daylight Solutions
DRS Daylight Solutions’ mission is to be the leading provider of best-in-class mid-infrared sources and systems for defence, commercial, and research markets. Its global leadership position in advanced, mid-IR technology means that Daylight Solutions’ customers benefit from a sustainable, competitive advantage in molecular detection and imaging applications.
In 2005, three high-tech entrepreneurs founded DRS Daylight Solutions in San Diego, California, with the goal of developing breakthrough technologies and products around the company’s core technology: mid-IR quantum cascade lasers (QCLs). Since then, the company has introduced three groundbreaking products:
- The world’s first broadly tunable, mid-IR laser system for scientific research
- The world’s first semiconductor-based laser for protecting aircraft against shoulder-fired missiles
- The world’s first mid-IR, laser-based microscope for real-time biochemical imaging and materials analysis
QCL technology provides a versatile platform for product development, enabling Daylight Solutions to serve a wide range of industries. DRS Daylight Solutions and its wholly-owned subsidiary, DRS Daylight Defence, which delivers classified, military-hardened products to the defence industry, are both advanced in manufacturing capabilities.
About the products
The trusted performance of mid-IR tunable lasers lets you go straight to your application, without stopping to build a laser. At the core of Daylight Solutions’ product range is its External Cavity Quantum Cascade Laser™ technology. This laser source is rugged enough for high-power illumination in aircraft missile defence and reliable enough for scientific research where a broadly tunable, precision laser system is needed.
The second-generation Spero platform, represents yet another breakthrough in IR spectroscopy, with high-performance, label-free chemical imaging.
Daylight Solutions’ products and technology are equipping experts worldwide with cutting-edge capabilities to help pioneer advances in scientific research, chemical imaging, sensors and analysers, and defence and security. Whether you need laser sources, OEM sensor engines, or complete sensor systems, DRS Daylight Solutions delivers off-the-shelf products and custom solutions to meet your most rigorous requirements.
