January 22, 2010--BaySpec (Fremont, CA), manufacturer of advanced spectroscopy solutions, is pleased to announce the successful outcome of a collaboration with e2v (Chelmsford, England) on a new optical coherence tomography (OCT) spectral engine that allows up to three times greater collection efficiency than standard Czerny-Turner spectrographs, while offering a 10x signal-to-noise ratio improvement in detector sensitivity.
BaySpec’s DeepView Spectrograph, designed for the expanding spectral domain-optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) market, provides high throughput spectral measurements in an ultra compact package and factory calibrated for long-life and low-cost of ownership.
Based around e2v’s family of SD-OCT Aviiva EM4 detector array cameras and BaySpec’s high throughput Volume Phase Gratings (VPG) DeepView spectrographs, the OEM instrument offers price and performance benefits while also providing 10x full well capacity resulting in the 68 dB dynamic range.
Eric Bergles, VP sales and marketing of BaySpec, said, “The performance-price of this system opens up doors in doctor’s offices, allowing them to purchase cost effective equipment. We also expect this breakthrough to lead to a host of new industrial applications.”
Frédéric Devriere, e2v’s imaging division product manager at e2v, said, “The combination of expertise in this dedicated system has already raised great interest and will make SD-OCT even more powerful and accessible to the research community and the industrial markets.”
--Posted by Gail Overton; [email protected]; www.laserfocusworld.com.