Ocean Optics has introduced the Red Tide low-cost, small-footprint lab spectrometer that offers a spectral response from 350-1000 nanometres, an order-sorting filter to eliminate second-order effects and integration times as fast as 3ms. Red Tide’s modular design can be configured with various Ocean Optics optical bench accessories, light sources and sampling optics to create application-specific systems for thousands of absorbance, reflection and emission applications.
With its small footprint (89.1 mm x 63.3 mm) and USB interface, Red Tide is perfect for basic lab measurements. The USB port streamlines start-up and supports hot swapping of the spectrometer. Red Tide also interfaces to Pasco’s Xplorer GLX. Available from Ocean Optics or Pasco, the Xplorer GLX is a combined datalogger and lab analysis tool that eliminates the need for a PC.
Red Tide operates via Ocean Optics’ SpectraSuite spectroscopy software, the first spectroscopy operating software to run on Macintosh, Linux and Windows. A special version of SpectraSuite is available with a module for educational use, with features such as a Beer’s Law calculator for absorbance experiments.