
VS7000
Overview
VS-7000-CCD is a low cost mini-spectrometer featuring a high QE back-illuminated CCD. This VS-7000 system has a dynamic range of 5600:1. The CCD has a peak QE of 90%, a height of 300mic, but has no anti-blooming feature. For higher dynamic range (7000:1) and anti-blooming, please see our VS7000+ with 300 mic CCD height standard and 1mm as optional CCD height.
Typical applications low light applications such as fluorescence and other emission spectroscopy.
Available for US OEM customers only
Features
- High readout speed
- High QE CCD
- Ultra-low stray light
- 3 spectral coverage options:
- 200-860 nm
- 380-750 nm
- 200-1050 nm
- Most popular UV-VIS range: 200-860 nm with excellent peak symmetry
- 2.3 ms maximum readout speed
- Low-noise electronics, high linearity (raw) and linearity correction (on-board parameters)
- Back-illuminated linear CCD - highest QE of any mini spectrometer:
- 65 % at 250 nm
- >90 % at 650 nm
- 70 % at 850 nm
- True USB 2.0 interface
- Order-sorting filter to eliminate second orders
- Windows acquisition software and LabView V.I.s
Manufactured by HORIBA
Specifications
Available for US OEM customers only
Spectral coverage Option | UV-VIS: |
Numerical aperture | F/3 |
Stray light rejection | 0.04% (0.08%) for UV-VIS configuration. |
CCD Detector & Typical Q.E. | Back-illuminated linear CCD with ultra-low etaloning in NIR region |
Detector height & Fiber diameter | ~300 μm CCD height and 300 μm diameter fiber (optional; 1.5 m long) |
Thermoelectric stabilization | None. Dark current (and CCD pattern noise) must be subtracted. User needs to turn off the light |
Spectral resolution | UV-VIS: 75 μm slit with 1024 pixels – 2.6 nm resolution – 0.65 nm per pixel |
Improved CCD full well | 168 Ke- (measured on 1024 pixel CCD version with linear correction) |
Readout speed | 4.45 ms (1 MHz mode) 225 spectra/s with 0 exposure time (Multi-Acq mode) |
Maximum readout speed | 2.35 ms (Ultra mode) 425 spectra/s with 0 exposure time (Multi-Acq mode) |
Integration time | 1 μs (+ readout time) to 5-10 s (see readout speed limit above) |
Typical Dark current | 4 count/ms at 1 MHz mode at 20 °C room temperature (Max = 9 counts/ms) |
Typical readout noise | 30 e- at 1 MHz (Max = 35 e-) |
A/D converter & speed | 16 bit, 1 MHz |
Typical dynamic range | 5,600:1 at 1 MHz (higher if CCD was running at lower speed) |
Signal-to-noise ratio (typical) | 405:1 (Square root of full well when limited by shot noise) |
Gain | 2.5 e-/count |
Compliances | CE and RoHS compliant |
Size | L 4.9 x W 3.9 x H 2.9 in (124.5 x 99 x 74 mm) |
Weight | 2 lb |
Measurement Techniques
Available for US OEM customers only
This mini Spectrometer features a Back-thinned CCD with high QE (peak at 90%) and high full well; it is ideal for industrial low light applications such as fluorescence, emission, absorbance, and reflectance.
It outperforms current generation minispectrometers based on front illuminated Sony or Toshiba CCDs, or other low-cost back-illuminated CCDs.
For OEM industrial applications, we offer many other detector solutions for the VS70, VS140 optical platforms and many other customized mini spectrometers:
Our spectrometers can be prototyped to your OEM specifications with the following detectors:
Front Illuminated CCDs: | ILX-511B (low cost with optional UV coating), ICX-285 (interline for imaging spectrograph) (Sony) |
Back-thinned CCDs: | S10420 (low speed/low noise), S11071(new, high speed), S11155 (new with e-shutter), S7031 (TE Cooled - 1.5 to 6mm tall)... |
CMOS/NMOS PDAs: | S3901, S3902, S3903, S3904, S10111(new), S10112(new), S8377, S8378, S9227... |
InGaAs linear arrays: | SU256LSB-1.7T2-0500 (2-Stage TE cooled, 256 pixels, 0.9-1.7 mic, 500 mic tall) - Other formats and ranges on request. |
Our factory will provide you with a spectrograph and a pre-aligned multichannel detector on an OEM basis. You may provide your own electronics or ask us to quote our solutions.
Resources

Acquisition software included (LabView 8.5 only)
- VIs and top level code are provided for customer customizations
- Access to data with raw CCD linearity and corrected linearity, done at factory for each CCD chip
- CCD settings & dark subtract
- On-board or software averaging
- Absorbance and transmission calculations
- Scale selection between pixel, wavelength and wave number
- On-board spectral calibration
- Linearity correction On/Off
- Boxcar averaging
- Save function to Excel or text file
NOTE: No LabView license required to run our acquisition software. LabView license, Version 8.5 required to edit our code. No code customization supported in price.
Accessories
Available for US OEM customers only
For OEM industrial applications, we offer many other detector solutions for the VS70, VS140 optical platforms and many other customized mini spectrometers:
Our spectrometers can be prototyped to your OEM specifications with the following detectors:
Front Illuminated CCDs: | ILX-511B (low cost with optional UV coating), ICX-285 (interline for imaging spectrograph) (Sony) |
Back-thinned CCDs: | S10420 (low speed/low noise), S11071(new, high speed), S11155 (new with e-shutter), S7031 (TE Cooled - 1.5 to 6mm tall)... |
CMOS/NMOS PDAs: | S3901, S3902, S3903, S3904, S10111(new), S10112(new), S8377, S8378, S9227... |
InGaAs linear arrays: | SU256LSB-1.7T2-0500 (2-Stage TE cooled, 256 pixels, 0.9-1.7 mic, 500 mic tall) - Other formats and ranges on request. |
Our factory will provide you with a spectrograph and a pre-aligned multichannel detector on an OEM basis. You may provide your own electronics or ask us to quote our solutions.



