Spectroscopy

Highlights

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The new minimally invasive screening approach needs just a single drop of blood to detect health conditions.
Bio&Life Sciences

Infrared spectroscopy meets machine learning

Oct. 4, 2024
A minimally invasive screening approach that works with a single drop of blood could potentially revolutionize both reactive and preventative healthcare.
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Test & Measurement

Spectrometer features transmission grating-based design

Sept. 26, 2024
The EAGLE C-OCT-S is an athermal, compact spectrometer, suited for spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT).
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The portable smartphone-based Raman spectrometer system is capable of detecting and analyzing chemicals and other materials in the field.
Test & Measurement

Smartphone-based Raman spectrometer is cost-effectively convenient

Sept. 20, 2024
From texting and navigation to banking and video streaming, smartphones are among the most multifaceted technologies ever developed. And now, chemical detection has joined its...
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FIGURE 1. Experimental setup: Second-harmonic generation (SHG); intrapulse difference frequency generation (IDFG); electro-optic sampling (EOS); λ/4 (quarter-wave plate); mid-infrared (MIR).
Test & Measurement

Dual-comb spectroscopy measures 240,000 spectral points in longwave infrared at video rate

Sept. 9, 2024
Spectrometry system obtains absorption spectra of gaseous molecules over a spectral range of 1.5 to 45 THz, with up to 240,000 spectral data points in a single measurement spanning...
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Detectors & Imaging

Multiple SWIR wavelength emitter-detector has use in IR spectroscopy

The MTMD142345PDT38 multiwavelength shortwave-infrared (SWIR) wavelength emitter-detector provides SWIR detection in the 600–1750 nm range.
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Test & Measurement

CRDS gas analyzer monitors atmospheric greenhouse gases

May 11, 2024
The T-I Max AIR cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) gas analyzer delivers continuous, real-time monitoring.
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Bio&Life Sciences

PRM-SRS microscopy platform distinguishes specific lipid types

May 7, 2024
A Raman microscopy-based imaging approach could crack the long-elusive code of lipids, their subtypes, and the key roles they play in human health, aging, and disease.
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Test & Measurement

Broadband UV dual-comb spectrometer measures pollutants in real time

April 29, 2024
A new type of spectrometer is designed for broad spectral coverage, short acquisition times, and high spectral resolution—and it captures electronic, vibrational, and rotational...
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Quantum

Quantum optics technique reveals new type of light-matter interaction within semiconductors

Feb. 14, 2024
Photon-cascade correlation spectroscopy enables peering into the quantum realm: Creating an image-in-time of photons reveals whether they tend to travel together or not, which...