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Modular Components for Building a Spectrofluorometer

Sample Compartment

  • Koala, automated sample compartment

Light Sources

  • Laser diodes and light emitting diodes
  • Xenon arc lamp
  • Monochromatic light via optical fiber

Light Detectors

  • Room-temperature PMT housing
  • Cooled PMT housing
  • Microchannel plate detector (MCP)

Control, Modulation and Processing Electronics

  • HB16 unit, stepper motor controller
  • PX01, 100 MHz pre-amplifier discriminators for photon counting
  • K2.LF low frequency modulator
  • PCMC card for photon counting measurements on 3 channels
  • DCA2D200K card for frequency-domain applications

Software