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Le Maitre Ensures Quality, Safety of Close Proximity Pyrotechnics with Ocean Optics Spectrometers

Spectrometers from Ocean Optics are being used by Le Maitre Ltd (Surrey, England) to ensure the quality and safety of its close proximity pyrotechnics.

3 Aug 2015

$McPherson Introduces SXR Spectrometer with New Gold Coated Diffraction Grating$

McPherson Introduces SXR Spectrometer with New Gold Coated Diffraction Grating

McPherson's SXR spectrometer, Model 251MX, is now available with improved efficiency over a wider range. A new diffraction grating is available! The new Gold coated diffraction grating is ideal for work from 20 to 80 nanometers.

29 Jul 2015

NASA's New Horizons Mission Provides Surprising Insight into Pluto's Surface

NASA’s New Horizons team have announced a series of discoveries including a new, vivid view of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon and the icy mountains on Pluto just one day after the spacecraft’s first ever flyby.

16 Jul 2015

First Definitive Observation and Spectroscopic Characterization of Deceptively 'Simple' Compound

Scientists at the University of Arizona have discovered a mysterious molecule with a structure simple enough to make it into high school textbooks, yet so elusive that chemists have argued for more than a century over whether it even exists.

14 Jul 2015

Delivery of OVIRS Point Spectrometer for NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission

An instrument that will explore the surface of a primitive asteroid in search of water and organic materials has arrived at Lockheed Martin for installation onto NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx).

9 Jul 2015

BSI Founder Invited to Lecture at Summer Workshop on Spectroscopic Imaging

Biophotonic Solutions Inc. (BSI), the world leader in automated laser pulse compression, announces that company founder Dr. Marcos Dantus will give an invited lecture at the upcoming 5th Summer Workshop on Spectroscopic Imaging. Scheduled for July 9, 2015, at Purdue University, Dr. Dantus' lecture will cover how to use broadband femtosecond laser pulses for improving biomedical imaging.

3 Jul 2015

Laser Spectroscopy Helps Measure Variations in Energy Transition within Cadmium Atoms

Atoms absorb and emit light of various wavelengths. Physicists have long known that there are some tiny changes, or shifts, in the light that gets absorbed or emitted, due to the properties of the atomic nucleus.

2 Jul 2015

New Laser Technique for Resolving Orbits of Multiple Molecular Orbitals

A scientist in a crisp, white lab coat and protective eye goggles sits behind a safety shield, controller in hand. In front of him is a powerful titanium-sapphire laser, aimed at a crystal lens. His thumb gently squeezes the trigger on the controller. There is an imperceivable wisp of gas that is escaping from a nozzle and crossing the laser’s path. Before he can even blink his eye the laser is capable of firing more than a trillion times. On the screen a line of alternating pairs of glowing, amorphous spots appear. For the first time ever, someone has been able to peer down into the molecular level to observe simultaneously in two dimensions.

26 Jun 2015

SPECTRO Launches SPECTROLAB Arc/Spark Optical Emission Spectrometers for Metal Analysis

SPECTRO Analytical Instruments today introduced two new SPECTROLAB Arc/Spark optical emission spectrometers for high-performance metal analysis.

18 Jun 2015

Researchers Analyze Intact Virus Particles Using Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Mass Spectrometer

Carnegie Mellon University chemists, led by Mark Bier, have separated and weighed virus particles using mass spectrometry (MS). This is the first time that researchers successfully used matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization MS to analyze a mixture of intact virus particles.

4 Jun 2015

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