If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call? StellarNet! Ghostbusters is always a favorite this time of year and so is watching those spooky ghost hunter reality shows. Don’t you wonder if that weird glow in the lab is actually a ghost? StellarNet wants to help you detect those paranormal phenomena and create your very own Dr. Egon Spengler-approved equipment. Read our Halloween App Note because “Bustin’ makes you feel good!”
1. Design your own mini proton ray gun with laser spectroscopy!
Design your own mini proton Ray gun, or more specifically, “particle thrower” using new laser plasma technologies. Use StellarNet spectrometers to evaluate lasers for power and frequency to optimize proton power to catch the mosts ghosts. Stronger the proton stream is the more likely to retain and capture your negatively charged ghost species.
To design your own mini proton Ray gun, you’re gonna need a laser. While it might sound like science fiction, researchers at Berkeley Labs are using one of the most powerful lasers in the world to accelerate subatomic particles in a table-sized laser-plasma accelerator, an emerging class of particle accelerators that physicists believe can shrink traditional, miles-long accelerators to machines that can fit on a table. So, yes, there is a Ray of hope for your Ray gun to work, like Ray’s does. (Couldn’t resist)
And if you have a laser, you’re gonna call StellarNet for some laser measurement systems! Our miniature rugged spectrometers are calibrated to measure and track laser frequency and centroid wavelength and/or total power of lasers in Watts. A Mini Rugged Spectrometer for your Mini Proton Ray Gun! Monitor laser shift with auto-peak finder and episodic data capture. Systems can also be simultaneously calibrated for absolute intensity measurements in watts using integrating spheres.
2. Verify Ectoplasm with Fluorescence & Color Measurement Systems
Detect fluorescence from Ectoplasm slime. If you happen to encounter Ectoplasmic Residue be sure to test its color and fluorescence properties to confirm it’s an out of this world protoplasm, and not simply green jello. Ectoplasm, or “Ghost Slime” usually appears in the form of a slimy green substance, but sometimes is visually completely absent, leaving only energetic traces Egon usually finds with his gear.
With a powerful and tunable light source and a sensitive fluorescence spectrometer you’ll be able to uncover loads of evidence from fluorescent ectoplasm. StellarNet’s line of research grade fluorescence systems are designed for a wide range of applications requiring eXtreme sensitivity – to detect the presence of even the smallest ghost. Choose from our research grade BLACK-Comet with concave grating optics or upgrade to our high performance SILVER-Nova-TEC-X2 with 2-stage Thermo Electric Cooling (TEC) and interchangeable slits. As always, StellarNet instrumentation is built modular, compact, and rugged for field, process, or paranormal environments.
3. Design your own Ecto Goggles!
You’ve got to be able to see the ghosts to catch ‘em, right? These “Ecto goggles” turn psychokinetic energy into visible photons. Use our spectrometers to tune the visible light emitted for each creature so your human eyes can see the invisible! Use StellarNet’s display measure systems to test the quality of the flat display in your goggles.
The StellarNet spectrometers are great tools for low cost, routine analysis of all types of displays and monitors. The increasing use and popularity of flat panel displays for televisions, computer monitors, laptops, automotive displays, cell phones, and mobile devices of all kinds requires accurate, fast, and cost-effective methods for measuring color, luminance, and various other output parameters. In R&D applications there is a continuing need for low cost and easy-to-use measurement systems that can be applied to all sorts of display sizes, brightness, and technologies — LCD, plasma, OLED and LED
BLOODY CUSTOMER SPECTROSCOPY APPLICATIONS
Suspenseful music, eerie lighting, a scream, and a splatter of blood on the wall. Will you live or die? That probably depends on how well your blood coagulates – a process called thrombosis. Researchers are searching for a continuous, noninvasive monitoring technique to assess blood-clotting risk, and they’re doing it using the optical and physical flow properties of human blood. Red Blood Cell (RBC) aggregometry is a potential label-free method for evaluating blood-clotting risk, according to several studies. Using a Blue-Wave UVNb-50 spectrometer to measure transmitted light intensity, measurements were taken continuously as a clotting agent was added to the blood, as reported in the Journal of Artificial Organs.
What if you are bitten or scratched by something and strange lesions begin appearing on your skin? Oh no – are you turning into a Zombie? German scientists are using optical spectrometry to diagnose skin lesions as either normal, benign, malign or Zombie skin lesions. Okay, technically Zombie Skin Lesions (ZSL) aren’t yet classified, but be assured that we’ll be there to provide spectrometers to determine if that is simply a freckle on your face… or the beginning of your metamorphosis into the undead.
StellarNet’s Ecto Plasm Shooter
Need a little courage to steel yourself against the forces of the paranormal? Try drinking StellarNet’s Ecto Plasm shooter – Much like crossing the streams, either you’ll gain courage or become a ghostly spirit yourself!
1 Part Irish cream
2 Parts Melon Liqueur
Splash Blue Curacao Syrup
1. Pour melon liqueur into shot glass and gently layer Irish cream on top.
2. Drop blue curacao syrup inside.
You will now have the courage to battle any supernatural being!
Have fun and enjoy!,
The StellarNet Team
Meet the StellarNet Team of Ghostbusters!
David Parrino, Senior Technical Sales & OEM Business Manager
“Kimbo” Quinones, Senior Technical Sales
Stephanie Boxel, Technical Sales & Support
Jason Pierce, Business Development
SpectraWizard, Marketing & Magic
Slimer
Slimer aka Mark Peterson, Director of Operations, Production
StellarNet Team of Ghostbusters
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It’s true, a portion of our profits from every spectrometer you purchase go directly to our Halloween costume fund! If you have a great idea for next year’s Halloween App note drop us a line at ContactUs@StellarNet.us and see your idea become our next fun App note.
