What is a digitizer?

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 counts of data per pixel. Older spectrometers may have 14 or even 12-bit digitizers. Depending on the age of your spectrometer you might be able to update to the latest electronics. Ask your application scientist for more information!