Fluorescence Lifetime Spectrometer

FluoTime 200

Specifications

System
Optical configuration	L-Geometry (standard), T- or X-Geometry available
Mode of operation	Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC), Multi-Channel Scaling (MCS)

Monochromators
Type	Single or double subtractive		Direct drive
Focal length	100 mm		200/250 mm
Aperture	F/3.2		F/3.5
Standard Grating	1200 l/mm		300-3600 l/mm (up to 3 gratings in turret)
Resolution	4 nm, 8 nm and 16 nm		< 0.2 nm, continously adjustable slits

Excitation Sources
Light Source	Pulsed LEDs (PLS)		Laser Diode Heads (LDH)		Ti:Sa Lasers
Wavelengths	255 to 600 nm		375-485, 530, 635-1550 nm		240-950 nm
Pulse width	400 ps - 1 ns		60 - 500 ps		20 - 200 fs
Repetition rate	Up to 40 MHz		Up to 40 MHz		Up to 84 MHz
			(80 MHz optional)

Detectors
Type	PMT				MCP-PMT			NIR-PMT
Spectral Range in nm	185-650	185-820	300-900		160-650	160-850		950-1400	950-1700
Dark Counts (at 20°C, typ. value)	< 50 cps	< 900 cps	< 6000 cps		< 50 cps	< 500 cps		< 10.000  cps	< 300.000 cps
	other detectors and cooling available on request

Data Acquisition Card
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	down to 1 ms

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

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