Andor Adds New Spectrographs to its Growing Range of Spectroscopy Solutions

Andor Technology will launch two new spectrographs at Laser 2007 and will also announce details of 3rd party agreements with two new specialist spectrograph manufacturers, Headwall Photonics and Specim.

The Shamrock SR-500 and SR-750 spectrographs are welcome additions to Andor’s Shamrock family, offering ultimate resolution for more detail and clarity across a wide range of applications including Raman and fluorescence. Features include direct and responsive control of the spectrograph and camera through Andor Solis (s) software allowing the user to control wavelength and calibration, grating selection, shutter control and filter selection as well as a “step and glue” facility to seamlessly join spectra together.

The Shamrock SR-500 has an aperture of f/6.5, reciprocal dispersion of 1.7nm/mm, and a wavelength resolution of 0.05nm. The SR-750 has an aperture of f/9.8, reciprocal dispersion of 1.1nm/mm and a wavelength resolution of 0.03nm. Both offer a mechanical scan range of 0 to 1200nm, wavelength accuracy of ±0.2nm and a focal plane size of 28x14mm.

Adding to the growing range of spectroscopy solutions Dr. Colin Coates, Andor’s Market Development Manager, explains “Combined with Andor’s range of high performance detectors and associated accessories we are now able to offer our customers pre-aligned and calibrated data collection solutions for spectroscopy. Since our inception almost 20 years ago Andor has spent time consolidating our range of detectors, spectrographs and accessories to give our customers world beating data collection solutions to fit every application”.

Laser will also see Andor announce two new 3rd party marketing and sales agreements with specialist spectrograph manufacturers, Headwall Photonics and Specim.

The Raman Explorer™ family of multi-channel, multi-spectrum spectrographs is manufactured by Headwall Photonics (Fitchburg, MA). It is based on Headwall’s patented, aberration-corrected, retro-reflective concentric design – an innovative, high reciprocal dispersion instrument which is optimized for high signal throughput of weak Raman spectra with reduced measurement integration time. The unique design supports the ability to disperse multiple spectral ranges over a single CCD with superior resolution, photometric accuracy, and spectral bandwidth.

The ImSpector from Specim Spectral Imaging Ltd (Oulu, Finland)is a direct sight imaging spectrograph that can be quickly combined with a camera to form a spectral camera. Compared to conventional color cameras and other filter-based imaging systems, ImSpector produces full continuous spectral information with high quality spectral and spatial resolution. Both the ImSpector Standard and Enhanced series are suited for industrial and scientific applications that require rapid and precise spectral measurements for a low cost.

Commenting on the 3rd party agreements Dr. Coates adds “As well as designing and manufacturing our own range of spectrographs, we can now also offer our customers other specialist spectrographs through global distribution and teaming agreements with third parties. We have spent some time evaluating these solutions from Headwall and Specim and their spectrographs are fully supported and integrated with our detectors, software and accessories to give you complete spectroscopy solutions, whatever your application”.

Visit the Andor stand, stand B1.501 at Laser to find out more from the experts or contact Andor.