ROCK Spectrometers

4 times better sensitivity !

The ROCK platform is a series of industrial grade, pre-configured OEM spectrometers that provides

  • High optical throughput
  • Symmetrical peak shapes
  • Adaptation flexibility for customer specific detectors and electronics
  • Robust, athermal design

So, if you have trouble getting enough light for your spectroscopy system a ROCK spectrometer could be your answer.

Applications

Our spectrometers are well suited as the spectral engine in your analytical instrument for a wealth of applications in:

  • Health care and life science
  • Food and agriculture
  • Light measurement
  • Semiconductor manufacturing
  • Security
  • Bio-photonics and pharmaceuticals

On our applications pages you can find help to identify which of our spectrometer platforms that best suits your needs.

High throughput by design

The ROCK spectrometers are based on a transmission geometry with two lenses and a transmission grating in a nearly on-axis beam geometry. This is in contrast to the typical Czerny-Turner design that uses two mirrors and a reflection grating in an off-axis beam geometry.

The on-axis geometry of the ROCK spectrometers enables a much larger acceptance angle for the input beam than the Czerny-Turner configuration and thereby a much higher amount of coupled light. The numerical aperture (NA) of the ROCK spectrometers are 0.22 (f-number of 2.2) wheras typical Czerny-Turner configurations are limited to NA of 0.11 to 0.16 (f-number of 3.5 - 4.5).

Furthermore, the ROCK spectrometer uses transmission grating with efficiencies in the 70 - 90 % whereas typical blazed reflection gratings are limited to 30 - 60 %.

You can read much more about the benefits of transmission grating based spectrometers here.

Product list

Detector Detector
benefits
UV
200 - 400 nm
VIS
400 - 800 nm
VIS-NIR
500 - 1100 nm
SW-NIR
800 - 1100 nm
NIR
1000 - 1900 nm
XNIR
1100 - 2200 nm
CCD
SONY ILX511B
Low cost
High sensitivity
RSU-300 RSV-300 RST-300 - - -
BT-CCD
Hamamatsu S10420
High sensitivity RSU-305 - - - - -
CMOS
Panavision ELIS1024
Medium S/N
Low cost
- RSV-110 - - - -
CMOS
Hamamatsu S8378-512
High S/N
High linearity
RSU-145 - - - - -
NMOS
Hamamatsu S8380-256
High S/N
High linearity
- - RST-220 RSS-220 - -
Cooled NMOS
Hamamatsu S8382-256
High S/N
High linearity
Low Dark noise
- - - RSS-290 - -
NMOS
Hamamatsu S8381-512
High S/N
High linearity
- RSV-200 RST-200 - - -
InGaAs
Hamamatsu G9214-512
NIR range - - - - RSN-445 -
InGaAs
Hamamatsu G9208-256
NIR range - - - - RSN-465 RSX-465

Ordering

Request a quotation here for any of our ROCK spectrometers. If you have special requirements for resolution, detector, or wavelength range just enter those into the "Request quotation" form.

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