StellarNet has announced a new high performance, high resolution, broadband spectrometer for the 200-1050nm range.  The optics include a UV enhanced 2048 pixel CCD detector with a special composite grating that has no moving parts to provide 0.75nm resolution with a 14um slit at a surprisingly low cost.  An integrated order sorting filter allows the broadband instrument to used for a variety of UV-VIS-NIR spectroscopy measurements.

The portable spectrometer is smaller than your shoe, and is packaged in a rugged enclosure that has an SMA905 fiber optic input.  It can be attached directly to a computers high speed USB (1 or 2) port, or high speed IEEE1284 parallel port.  Numerous other StellarNet models provide variety of operational ranges and optical resolutions down to 0.1nm, suitable for spectroscopy applications such as chemical and optical analysis, spectroradiometry, spectrocolorimetry, UV spectrum analysis, remote sensing, LIBS, and process control monitoring.

StellarNet includes SpectraWiz software free-of-charge to immediately enable an array of spectroscopy applications.  SpectraWiz also includes drivers with customizable programs for LabVIEW, Visual Basic Automation for Excel, VC, and Delphi operating under Win9x/2k/XP. Surf www.StellarNet-Inc.com or phone +1-813-855-8687.

PORTA-LIBS-2000 for Laser Induced Breakdown (Plasma) Spectoscopy            (Click on images for larger view)

StellarNet and Kigre have indroduced a truely portable element analyzer to identify compounds for a variety of industrial applications including defense and security   for chemical, biological, soil, metals, forensics, and other material analysis.   The PORTA-LIBS-2000 instrument integrates portable spectrometers made by StellarNet (Tampa, Florida) and Kigres’ (Hilton Head, SC) nanosecond pulsed, Nd:YAG NIR Laser that delivers 6 MegaWatts to create a plasma.  The portable instrument case is just 18 x 14 x 7 inches and operates via 12 volt adapter or battery, with two high resolution spectrometers.  Depending on detection requirements, up to 8 spectrometers can be attached via USB-2 computer interface.

Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy or LIBS has become the common acronym for element detection using laser plasma.  This permits real-time qualitative identification of trace elements in solids, gases, and liquids using optical detection of elemental emission spectra.  Using this technique, little or no sample preparation is required and calibration-free quantitative analysis is possible without matrix effects.

The SpectraWiz software provides element identification via spectral database for qualitative measurements.  Samples are quickly measured and saved to a text log-file.  Compound element libraries can be created and searched.  Customizable programs are also included to operate directly from Excel+VBA and LabVIEW.

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