OSA is Optoplex Corporation’s latest product platform as a scanning engines for optical spectral analyzers and spectrometers.

Near-infrared analysis of organic gases, liquids, and solids are widely used tools to measure composition and purity of samples for industrial process quality control and environmental safety. However, traditional FT-NIR analyzers, designed primarily for laboratory use, are too bulky and expensive to deploy effectively on process lines and for point-of-use. Wavelength dispersive element and detector array based analyzers often compromise resolution and other aspects of performance.

Leveraging on a proprietary thin-film coated tunable filter (a non-dispersive optical element), OSA is compact and light weight, consumes less than 3 W, and covers a wide wavelength range up to 400 nm in NIR, making it suitable for a variety of hand-held, portable or bench-top OSA / spectrometer. Equipped with a state-of-the-art internal wavelength reference, the device is capable of wavelength accuracy of 30 pm. Without requiring an extensive InGaAs detector array, OSA is a cost-effective alternative to the grating based OSA / spectrometer engine. The device communicates with a PC or an instrument motherboard via either RS-232 or DPRAM interface.

For more information, please write to info@optoplex.com or call (510) 490-9930.

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