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Ocean Optics’ Enhanced NIRQuest Series Features Replaceable Slit Design and Internal Shutter Option

Ocean Optics has enhanced the NIRQuest series of small-footprint near-infrared spectrometers. All NIRQuest spectrometer models now come with a replaceable slit design as standard, increasing measurement flexibility with easy user changes in the field. Additionally, the option of adding an internal shutter is now available to more effectively manage light throughput and dark measurements in experiment setups.

4 Mar 2016

Low-Cost, Portable Method that Uses NQR Spectroscopy Could Help Detect Substandard Medicines

Fake or low-quality medicines and food supplements are an ongoing global problem in underdeveloped nations, although technology-savvy places, such as the United States, are also not immune.

3 Feb 2016

Pushbroom Imaging Spectrometer Design Could Improve Landsat Images

For more than 40 years, Landsat satellites have provided a wealth of data that has informed our understanding of Earth features, phenomena, and environments as diverse as coral reefs, urbanization, tropical deforestation, and glaciers.

2 Feb 2016

Actavis UK Describes their Regulatory Approval Process for Content Uniformity Testing using Transmission Raman Spectroscopy

Actavis UK has written about how the generics manufacturing giant gained approval to use transmission Raman spectroscopy to release product as an alternative content uniformity (CU) test.

26 Jan 2016

IR-Enhanced CCD Camera for Scientific Imaging

Critical Link is pleased to announce the release of our newest CCD camera equipped with the latest sensor technology from Hamamatsu, a world leader in photonics research and development.

From Critical Link LLC 26 Jan 2016

Regolith X-ray Imaging Spectrometer Successfully Integrated Onboard NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft

Who can say they’ve been to an asteroid and back? In 2023, more than 50 MIT students may claim this feat, at least through the activities of a small, shoebox-sized instrument named REXIS (Regolith X-ray Imaging Spectrometer).

11 Jan 2016

New High Energy XUV Spectrometer from McPherson

McPherson's grazing incidence wavelength dispersive optical spectrometer allows rapid analysis of spectral light in the ~1 to 300nm wavelength region (4 to 1200 eV.) Beside high-harmonic laser generation experiments, the Model 248/310 is also useful for measuring ion- or discharge light sources and astrophysics detector calibration. At FLASH, the Free Electron Laser experiment at DESY Germany, the McPherson 248/310 UHV model assisted in analysis of the 2.3 to 4.4-nanometer water window (a region transparent to light).

9 Dec 2015

Gigahertz-Optik Launches BTS256-PAR Photosynthetically Active Radiation Meter

Gigahertz-Optik introduces an advanced technology Photosynthetically Active Radiation meter that provides PAR, illuminance, color and spectral data to fully analyze any type natural and artificial light sources including LEDs employed in plant growth applications.

8 Dec 2015

FireflySci Develops New NIR Range Spectrophotometer Calibration Tools

In the past several months, FireflySci has been innovating and developing new spectrophotometer calibration tools for scientists working in the NIR range. When it comes to verifying performance from 700-3000nm, typically the options have been limited.

12 Nov 2015

New Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory Achieves its First Image

After several years and a massive team effort, one of the world’s largest telescopes, the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory, has opened its giant eye again, achieving “first light” as the world’s third-largest optical telescope.

4 Nov 2015