Automated Fluorescence Lifetime Spectrometer "Easy Tau"

FluoTime 300

Specifications

System
Optical configuration	L-Geometry
Mode of operation	Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC), Multichannel Scaling (MCS)

Monochromator
Type	Czerny-Turner design	Czerny-Turner design
Focal length	150 mm	300 mm
Aperture	F/4.2	F/3.9
Stray light rejection	10-5	10-5
Standard grating (others on request)	1200 g/mm, blazed at 500 nm	1200 g/mm, blazed at 500 nm
Resolution	0.4 nm (at 438.5 nm, slit width 10 µm, 1200 g/mm grating)	0.1 nm (at 438.5 nm, slit width 10 µm, 1200 g/mm grating)
Step size (min)	0.01 nm	0.01 nm
Slit width adjustable between	10 µm - 4 mm (continuously adjustable, completely motorized)	10 µm - 4 mm (continuously adjustable, completely motorized)
Wavelength accuracy	0.25 nm (1200 g/mm grating)	0.2 nm (1200 g/mm grating)
Wavelength repeatability	0.1 nm	0.1 nm

Excitation Sources
Light source	Pulsed LEDs (PLS)		Laser Diode Heads (LDH)		pulsed Xenon lamp		cw Xenon lamp
Wavelengths	245 - 600 nm		375 - 510, 530, 595 635 - 1550 nm		200 - 900 nm		200 - 900 nm
Pulse width	400 ps - 1 ns		60 - 500 ps		<1 µs		---
Repetition rate	up to 40 MHz		up to 40 MHz		up to 300 Hz		---
			(80 MHz optional)

Detectors
Type	PMT (PMA-C)			MCP-PMT			NIR-PMT
Spectral range in nm	185 - 820	300 - 900		160 - 650	160 - 850		950 - 1400
Dark counts (at 20°C, typ. value)	< 150 cps	< 900 cps		< 50 cps	< 500 cps		< 10.000  cps
	other detectors types available on request

Data Acquisition
Type	PicoHarp 300		NanoHarp 250
Number of time channels/curve	up to 65536		up to 262144
Count depth	16 bit		18 bit
Time resolution (bin width)	4 ps		4 ns or 32 ns
Differential non-linearity	< 0.1 % rms, < 5 % pp.		< 0.1 % rms, < 1 % pp.
Dead Time	< 95 ns		8 ns
Discriminator level, zero cross adjust	software adjustable
Collection time	1 ms - 10 h

Data Analysis Software
Type	FluoFit (Professional)
Analysis possibilities	exponential decay, lifetime distribution, anisotropy, global analysis

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© PicoQuant GmbH, 2012