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Overview: Ocean Optics Light Sources

Sources for Illumination, Excitation, Calibration

Ocean Optics offers compact, low-cost, modular light sources that feature SMA 905 connectors for quick coupling to our extensive line of spectrometers and sampling accessories.

Sources for illumination cover the UV and VIS-NIR ranges to enable absorbance, reflectance and transmission measurements. Compact LEDs produce pulsed or continuous output for fluorescence measurements. And for fast, reliable calibrations, our HG-1, LS-1-CAL and DH-2000-CAL cover the 253-922 nm, 300-1050 nm and 220-1050 nm ranges respectively.

Design features like built-in filter slots, combined with optional accessories such as direct-attach cuvette holders, make sampling simple. In addition to a wide selection of off-the-shelf sources, we offer custom designs.

Ocean Optics Modular Light Source Options

Type	Usage
Tungsten Halogen Light Sources:	Used most often as standard VIS-NIR light sources for absorbance, reflectance of solid objects and color measurement.
Deuterium Light Sources:	Used most often for UV absorbance and reflectance measurements, and for applications requiring a stable, high-power source.
Combination UV-VIS-NIR Light Sources:	Used as a single illumination source for measurements across our spectrometers' entire wavelength range.
Pulsed Xenon Lamp:	Used most often in applications requiring a long-life light source for absorbance, reflectance and fluorescence measurements, and for measuring optically or thermally unstable samples.
Light-emitting Diodes:	Used most often as an excitation source for fluorescence applications. Features minimal warm-up time and high stability.
Mercury-Argon Wavelength Calibration Source:	Used as a wavelength calibration source for spectrophotometric systems. Produces Hg and Ar atomic emission lines from 253-922 nm.
Calibrated Tungsten Halogen Light Source:	Used to calibrate the absolute spectral intensity of a system. Its spectral intensity is NIST-traceable.

Ocean Optics Modular Light Sources, Calibration Standards and Lasers

Type	Product	Range	Output	Measurements
Deuterium Tungsten Halogen	DH-2000	~190 nm-1700 nm	Continuous	Absorbance, Reflectance, Fluorescence, Transmission
Miniature Deuterium Tungsten Halogen	DT-MINI-2	~200-1100 nm	Continuous	Absorbance, Reflectance, Transmission
Miniature Deuterium Tungsten Halogen	DT-MINI-2-GS	~200-1100 nm	Continuous	Absorbance, Reflectance, Transmission
Deuterium	D-2000	~200-400 nm	Continuous	Absorbance, Reflectance, Fluorescence, Transmission
Xenon	PX-2	220-750 nm	Pulsed	Fluorescence
Xenon	HPX-2000	185 nm-2200 nm	Continuous	Absorbance, Reflectance, Fluorescence, Transmission
LEDs	LS-450, R-LS-450	380, 430, 470, 518, 590, 640 or 450-630 nm	Pulsed or Continuous	Fluorescence
LED	USB-LS-450	475 nm	Pulsed or Continuous	Fluorescence
LED	LS-475	475 nm	Pulsed or Continuous	Fluorescence
Tungsten Halogen	LS-1	360 nm-2000 nm	Continuous	Absorbance, Reflectance, Transmission
Tungsten Halogen	HL-2000	360 nm-2000 nm	Continuous	Absorbance, Reflectance, Transmission
Calibrated Deuterium Tungsten Halogen	DH-2000-CAL	200 nm-2000 nm	Continuous	Calibration (Radiometric)
Calibrated Tungsten Halogen	LS-1-CAL	300-1050 nm	Continuous	Calibration (Radiometric)
Calibrated Tungsten Halogen	HL-2000-CAL	300-1050 nm	Continuous	Calibration (Radiometric)
Mercury Argon	HG-1	253-1700 nm	Continuous	Calibration (Wavelength)
Mercury Argon	CAL-2000	253-1700 nm	Continuous	Calibration (Wavelength)

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Light Sources: Absolute Spectral Output