When a spectrometer is being configured for a given experiment, one of the commonly overlooked considerations is in selecting the best fiber optic cable. While there are many different factors to ...

Miniaturized spectroscopy systems that can detect trace concentrations at the parts-per-billion (ppb) level are of utmost importance in applications ranging from environmental monitoring and ...

The Code requirements for optical fiber vary with the type of cable used Fiber optic cable has many advantages over competing technologies, including increased information capacity (by orders of ...

The goal of using standard silicon-IC technology to create smaller, better, and possibly less-expensive yet highly sophisticated instrumentation is extending to the optical domain. There’s major ...

The basics of fiber optic cables and bundles and how they can be used to collect and direct light are discussed in ‘An Introduction to a Spectrometer: Fiber Optic Bundles’. This article will discuss ...