VS7000+

Overview

HORIBA Scientific’s VS-7000+ is the latest evolution of our low-cost, high-performance family of CCD mini-spectrometers.

This fiber spectrometer provide spectral coverage for UV-VIS (200–860 nm), VIS (380–750 nm), and UV-NIR (200–1050 nm).

And, this miniature spectrometer offers high throughput (f/2.8 and tall CCD), a new high dynamic range CCD (7000:1), and ultra-low stray-light rejection thanks to the concave grating design..

The VS-7000+ is the ideal grating spectrometer for OEM industrial low-light applications such as fluorescence, emission, absorbance, and reflectance. It outperforms current mini-spectrometers based on front-illuminated Sony or Toshiba CCDs, or low-cost back-illuminated CCDs.

Features

Feature

Benefits for Spectroscopy

Most popular UV-VIS range

Excellent peak symmetry in a miniature grating spectrometer

High readout speed

4.5 ms maximum readout speed

Advanced electronics

Low noise, high linearity (raw), and linearity-correction (on-board)

Back-illuminated linear CCD

QE = 63% at 250 nm; 70% at 650 nm; 55% at 850 nm

High signal-to-noise ratio

Highest full well signal-to-noise ratio of any uncooled CCD mini-spectrometer

USB 2.0 interface

Standard connection interfaces to PCs with 100% data integrity

Order-sorting filter

Eliminates second-order interference

Windows® acquisition soft­ware and LabVIEW™ VIs available

Flexible software to integrate VS-7000+ as an OEM component

Sturdy single-optic design

Excellent light purity, with concave grating design

No moving parts or shutter

Excellent reliability for OEM integration


Manufactured by HORIBA

Specifications

Spectral coverage Option

UV-VIS:
(200–860    nm), 250 nm optimized grating, built-in    order-sorting filter
VIS:
(380–750    nm), VIS-blazed    grating, built-in long-pass filter
UV-NIR:
(200–1050 nm), dual-blaze grating, built-in order-sorting filter

For other gratings, please contact us.

Numerical aperture

F/2.8

Stray light rejection
Typical (Maximum)

  • 0.04% (0.08%) for UV-VIS configuration with 300 μm tall CCD.
    (measured with broad bandpass 510nm filter, 75μm slit-width)
  • >2.4 AU linear range (5% variation) with caffeine 273nm absorption peak in 10mm    cuvette    and D lamp.

CCD Detector & Typical Q.E.

Back-illuminated linear CCD with low etaloning in NIR – 65% Peak QE in the UV

CCD Detector height & Fiber-optic option

300 μm standard CCD height ( 1000 μm CCD height is available as an option)
600 μm diameter, 1.5m long fiber-optic (Fiber is not an option; for the 1 mm tall CCD, prefer an 800-1000 μm diameter fiber)

Thermoelectric stabilization

None.Dark current and CCD-pattern noise    must be subtracted. User must switch off light source or install manual shutter in optical path. QE shifts slightly with temperature.

Spectral resolution
Pixel resolution
Slit (factory configuration)

UV-VIS: 75 μm slit - 2048 pixels - 2.7nm resolution – 0.33nm/pixel (configuration with 300 μm tall CCD)
Available slits: 12-25-37-50-62-75-100-125-150-200μm (For other gratings, please contact us.)

Improved CCD full well
Raw non linearity
Factory corrected linearity

>250Ke- (sensitivity mode) and >450Ke- (high FW mode)
<1% (sensitivity mode) < 3% (high FW mode)
< 0.4% (sensitivity mode) < 0.8% (high FW mode)

Readout speed

8.6ms (500kHz mode); 116 spectra/s with    0 exposure time (Multi-Acq mode)
Max: 4.5 ms (Ultra mode); 223 spectra/s with 0 exposure time (Multi-Acq mode)

Typical Dark current

2.8 count/ms at 20 °C room temperature; Typical Offset= 1000 counts

Typical readout noise

35 e- (Max= 45e-) in sensitivity mode and 75e- (Max=90e-) in High FW mode

A/D converter & speed

16 bit, 500KHz

Typical dynamic range

7,000:1 in sensitivity mode to 6,000:1 in high FW mode

Signal-to-noise ratio (typical)

500:1 (sensitivity mode) to 700:1 (high FW mode). Shot- noise-limited conditions

Gain selection

4 e-/count and 8 e-/count

Dimensions (H×  W×D)

2.9”× 4.1”× 4.3”(73.0mm × 103.2mm × 109.4mm)

Weight

1.8 lb (0.82 kg)

* Specifications, Form Factor and Spectrometer Covers are subject to change without notice.

Brochures

VS7000+ Mini CCD Spectrometer Brochure


Windows or Linux Driver available for OEM integration

Resources

Acquisition software included (LabVIEW™ 2011 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 LabViewTM license required to run our acquisition software. LabViewTM license, Version 2011 required to edit our code. No code customization supported in price.

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