Avantes BV

Avantes is a leading innovator in the development and application of miniature spectrometers. To meet our customer’s application needs, Avantes continues to develop and introduce new instruments for fiber optic spectroscopy. Avantes instruments and accessories are also deployed in a variety of OEM applications and a variety of industries in markets throughout the world. With more than 18 years of experience in fiber optic spectroscopy and thousands of instruments in the field, Avantes is eager to help our customers find their Solutions in Spectroscopy^®.

Techniques Supported

• UV-VIS/NIR spectroscopy
• Process control
• Absorbance/transmittance/reflectance
• Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
• CIE color spectroscopy
• Portable spectrometers
• Fluorescence spectroscopy
• Custom applications
• lrradiance
• Raman spectroscopy
• OEM application development

Major Products/Services

Low-cost. high-resolution, miniature fiber optic spectrometers: System solutions and OEM instruments for applications from 185 nm to 2500 nm. Detector choices: PDA, CMOS, CCD, back-thinned CCD, and lnGaAs.

Optical benches with focal lengths of 45, SO or 75 mm; revolutionary new ultra-low straylight
optimized optical bench (ULS) and a new high sensitivity optical bench.

Other Features

• 14 and 16 bit AID converters
• TE cooling
• multi-channel instrument configurations enabling simultaneous signal acquisition
• USB2 communication
• support for multiple instruments from a single computer
• 14 programmable digital I/O ports

Standard Application Solutions

• lrradiance and LED measurements
• gemology
• hemometric analysis
• thin-film measurement
• color
• fluorescence
• laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS)
• Raman spectroscopy
• process control

Light Sources

• Tungsten-halogen
• Deuterium
• LED
• Xenon calibration sources for wavelength and irradiance