New Real Time Raman Spectrometer

Spectrolab Systems UK show-cased their latest Raman spectrometer, Laserspec 3000, at Pittcon. The all new spectrometer is many hundreds of times more sensitive than other commercial instruments and considerable interest is anticipated from both the military and pharmaceutical industry. The remarkable new optical system used in Laserspec Raman systems allow samples to be measured in miliseconds rather than minutes and is hundreds of times more sensitive than most other commercial instruments.

The instrument is extremely rugged and can be used in the lab or at site out of doors making it the perfect instrument for multi use applications.

A series of application interfaces are available allowing Laserspec to be used as a spectroscopic detector and the latest interface allows the instrument to be used as a detector for HPLC. Chromatography has been waiting for decades for an inexpensive Raman detector allowing much needed molecular analysis to be made directly from an LC sample cell. The simple interface developed for chromatography allows Laserspec to be interfaced to practically any commercial chromatograph - old or new. Other interfaces allow use with other types of instrument including X-ray diffraction, Optical emission and Xray fluorescence. Combined IR or NIR and Raman is also available making Laserspec truly universal.

SERS technology is available for ppb measurements offering a gain in sensitivity of around 100 million. Real time measuring capability means that spectral characteristics can be continuously monitored and correlated to changes in optical expression allowing dynamic or kinetic analysis to be made at a fraction of the price normally found in similar process instruments.