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), Multichannel Scaling (MCS)

Monochromators
Type	single
Focal length	100 mm
Aperture	F/3.2
Standard grating	1200 l/mm
Resolution	4 nm, 8 nm and 16 nm

Excitation Sources
Light source	Pulsed LEDs (PLS Series)		Laser Diode Heads (LDH Series)		Ti:Sa Lasers
Wavelengths	255 - 600 nm		375 - 510, 530, 595 635 - 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 Unit
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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