Virtually every scientific field has made strides by harnessing light to study the properties of substances. This technique, called spectroscopy, has countless research applications, and innovations ...

Spectral images, which contain more color information than is obtainable with a typical camera, reveal characteristics of tissue and other biological samples that can't be seen by the naked eye. A new ...

Slightly larger than a mobile phone, Ocean Optics' fiber-optic USB4000 spectrometer uses a 3648-element Toshiba linear CCD array detector and high-speed electronics. For the MARC system, the ...