Aug 13, 2021 | Glossary of Spectroscopy Terms, Light Source, Spectroscopy
The SL1-Filter comes with a color equalization filter. Halogen lamps naturally emit a black body curve with weak blue emissions and strong green, yellow, red, and NIR. The Color Equalization Filter knocks down the emissions in the stronger wavelengths and allows the...
Aug 13, 2021 | Glossary of Spectroscopy Terms, Spectroscopy
A collimating lens is an accessory that fits at the end of a fiber optic cable and takes a beam of light and focuses it into the fiber. When the light is emitting from the fiber, the light is focused to a narrow 3° column.
Jul 14, 2021 | Glossary of Spectroscopy Terms, NIR, Spectrograph, Spectroscopy
Chemometrics is the science of extracting information from chemical systems by data-driven means. Chemometrics is inherently interdisciplinary, using methods frequently employed in core data-analytic disciplines such as multivariate statistics, applied mathematics,...
Jul 14, 2021 | Glossary of Spectroscopy Terms, Spectroscopy
Absorbance is related to the number of photons a sample absorbs. When an atom or molecule absorbs a single photon, an electron makes a transition to a higher orbital energy. As the number of atoms or molecules increases more photons can be absorbed. The number of...
Jul 7, 2021 | Glossary of Spectroscopy Terms, StellarNet Definition
Due to the modular nature of our instrumentation, one spectrometer can potentially be used for many applications. All StellarNet spectrometers are designed to work with different light-collecting accessories. These accessories set up proper geometry for each...
Jul 7, 2021 | Electronics, Glossary of Spectroscopy Terms, Spectrograph
A digitizer is a device that takes analog information and converts it into a digital form. The ‘bit’ is the amount of memory the digitizer has. In a 16-bit digitizer, you have 16 bits of memory. For our spectrometers, this translates to being able to measure 65536...