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Buying Spectrometers

Top-level product category: icon detectors and measurements

More general product categories: optical metrology equipment

More specific product categories: imaging spectrometers, mid-infrared spectrometers

Related product categories: spectrophotometers, monochromators, wavemeters

Optical spectrometers investigate wavelength-dependent properties of light, substances, or objects. This category includes spectrographs for measuring optical spectra, spectrophotometers for wavelength-dependent optical properties of samples, and other devices used in various scientific and industrial applications.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

As the most professional photonics purchasing portal, RP Photonics helps you to not only to find all relevant suppliers (not limited to our advertisers), but also to make good purchasing decisions.

NEW: Structured Decision Process

Purchasing involves a lot of responsibility. We recommend that you apply best practice by using the following structured process: Go through the following expandable sections, complete the form and finally come to a purchase decision. You can then print that to a PDF for documenting the process.

Our article on best practices for purchasing and another one explaining this tool give you valuable insights.

1. Understand the technical background

It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.

Use the comprehensive learning resources of RP Photonics:

encyclopedia article spectrometers optical spectrum diffraction gratings Fabry–Pérot interferometers wavemeters spectral phase interferometry

If you need personal help, contact RP Photonics to get technical consultancy.

2. Define your requirements

It is essential to fully understand and clearly define your requirements before you buy.

We recommend that you develop a list of clear specifications according to your specific needs, against which you can later check the suitability of found product offers:

To help you, we have already listed some aspects we recommend you consider when buying spectrometers. Of course, there may be other aspects that are relevant to your specific case.

This list is for your own preparation, and can later (possibly in modified form) be used for quotation requests to suppliers.

Otherwise, you will need to talk to your technical colleagues.

If you cannot sufficiently clarify your requirements, you may want to get technical consultancy from RP Photonics.

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3. Find suitable suppliers

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  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for spectrometers. Use the checkboxes to mark possibly suitable suppliers.
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  • Based on the results, you can finally choose a supplier that is hopefully a good enough fit.

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Suppliers for Spectrometers

129 suppliers for spectrometers are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 13 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Infrared Unleashed

NLIR
Hirsemarken 1
3520 Farum
Denmark
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spectrometers

The S2050 2–5 µm fiber spectrometer has a unique combination of a super-fast full spectra acquisition rate of up to 130 kHz, an ultra-sensitive minimum detection power of 5 pW/nm and a resolution of 6 cm−1.

Our spectrometer is based upon a new measuring paradigm where mid-infrared light is converted into near-visible light and then measured with conventional near-visible grating spectrometer technology.

Change the Color of Light to Expand your Possibilities!

GWU-Lasertechnik Vertriebsges. mbH
Bonner Ring 9
50374 Erftstadt
Germany
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spectrometers

GWU's portfolio of CCD-based spectrometers provides a great variety of features to fulfill nearly any requirement of versatile applications. The detection range covers the UV to near-infrared spectrum and even reaches out to the mid-infrared at 2.6 µm. Models with tiny footprint, e.g. for wavelength monitoring in OEM applications, as well as thermo-electric (TE) cooled devices with high resolution, high sensitivity and ultra-low noise for weak-light applications, such as fluorescence sensing or Raman analysis, are offered.

The Standard of Accuracy

HighFinesse
Laser and Electronic Systems GmbH
Neckarsulmer Straße 5
72072 Tübingen
Germany
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spectrometers

The grating-based HighFinesse/ Ångstrom’ spectrometers offer the capability for a very accurate simultaneous measurement of both wavelength and linewidth of laser sources. With a resolving power up to 40000 and a measurement speed up to 500 MHz, the product series covers the range from 192 nm to 11000 nm, allowing measurements of both pulsed and cw lasers. The grating based technology enables the analysis of laser sources over a large linewidth range. Connected to the PC via USB, after a simple software installation the spectrometers are ready for use.

Creating a Spectrum of Optical Solutions

Holographix LLC
140 Locke Drive
Suite A
Marlborough, MA 01752
United States
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spectrometers

We can design and manufacture custom spectrometers incorporating original or replicated gratings. Industry leading hyperspectral-imaging systems utilize our own designed and produced components and assemblies, so you can be assured of the very highest quality.

LightMachinery
80 Colonnade Rd. North, Unit 1
Nepean, Ontario K2E 7L2
Canada
spectrometers

LightMachinery's spectrometers are setting the new standard for range, resolution, cost and size. The HyperFine HF series spectrometer is designed for LIBS or simultaneous Brillouin and Raman spectroscopy. With 1 pm resolution in a small package size it offers an affordable approach to advanced spectroscopic applications. The Hyperfine HN Series spectrometer is a smaller version with about 25-pm resolution anywhere in the UV, visible and NIR wavelength ranges. The Hyperfine HN is ideal for characterizing light sources such as laser spectra in real time.

The Future Depends on Optics

Edmund Optics
101 East Gloucester Pike
Barrington, NJ 08007
United States
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See us at OPIE 25 in Pacifico Yokohama, Japan, April 23–25 (booth F-32), SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing in Orlando (FL), USA, April 13–17 (booth 917), Automate 25 in Detroid (MI), USA, May 12–15 (booth 4400), SPS Italia in Parma, Italy, May 13–15 (hall 5, booth 055) and DPG-Frühjahrstagung der Sektion kondensierte Materie in Regensburg, Germany, March 18–20 (booth 25)!

spectrometers

Edmund Optics offers a wide variety of spectrometers, including spectrometers that have been optimized for Raman or fluorescence spectroscopy. Raman spectrometers are ideal for Raman applications in the visible to the near infrared. The fluorescence spectrometers are ideal for use in low light fluorescence applications where the ability to detect weak signals is crucial for proper measurement. Additionally, fluorescence spectrometers feature broadband spectral response ranges for detecting wide wavelength bands along with a wide slit width for increased throughput.

Thorlabs
43 Sparta Avenue
Newton, NJ 07860
United States
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See us at OFC 2025 in San Francisco, April 1–3 (booth 1551)!

spectrometers

Thorlabs spectrometer development and manufacturing capabilities cover a wide range of wavelengths and applications. The compact grating-based Czerny–Turner spectrometers are fiber compatible and available for three different wavelength ranges. For applications that require higher spectral resolution, our optical spectrum analyzers employ a Michelson interferometric design compatible with fiber-coupled and free-space light sources that can be used in spectrometer or even wavelength meter mode. They are complemented by Fabry–Pérot interferometers that allow users to examine the fine spectral characteristics of e.g., CW lasers. In contrast, our holographic grating spectrometer is designed for integration into OCT systems and provides high measurement speed. For our unique Raman spectrograph, we use a coded aperture technology with exceptionally large étendue.

APE Angewandte Physik und Elektronik GmbH
Plauener Straße 163–165 / Haus N
13053 Berlin
Germany
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spectrometers

The waveScan spectrometer by APE is a compact and cost-efficient optical spectrometer for characterizing light sources, e.g. ultrafast as well as cw laser systems. The waveScan device family cover the spectral range from 200 nm to 6300 nm and allows also the characterization of low-repetition rate lasers down to 100 Hz. The rotating grating technology achieves high resolution measurements at a 5 Hz spectral measurement rates. This makes waveScan an ideal real-time alignment tool for laser systems.

Femto Easy
Batiment Gienah, Cite de la Photonique
11 avenue de Canteranne
33600 Pessac
France
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spectrometers

The MISS (Mini Imaging Spatial Spectrometer) is an innovative imaging spectrometer for ultrashort pulse characterization. It provides optical spectra with spatial resolution in one direction of a laser beam, thus allowing for vertical and horizontal spatial chirp measurements. Both free-space and fiber input versions are available.

Femtoseconds with Confidence

Light Conversion, UAB
Keramikų 2B
10233 Vilnius
Lithuania
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spectrometers

The HARPIA spectroscopy systems perform a variety of sophisticated time-resolved measurements in a compact footprint. The HARPIA-TA is a transient absorption spectroscopy system extendable with time-resolved fluorescence, microscopy, and other modules. The HARPIA-TG is a novel transient grating system for carrier diffusion and lifetime measurements. For a single-supplier solution, the HARPIA systems are combined with a PHAROS or a CARBIDE laser together with ORPHEUS series or I-OPA series of OPAs.

YOUR KEY to innovation and success

UltraFast Innovations GmbH
Dieselstr. 5
85748 Garching (München)
Germany
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spectrometers

EVEREST, by UltraFast Innovations (UFI®), is a soft X-ray/XUV/VUV spectrograph that features aberration-corrected flat-field imaging and is available with three gratings covering the spectral ranges 1–17 nm (1240–73 eV), 5–80 nm (248–15.5 eV) and 24–200 nm (51.7–6.2 eV). In order to maximize light collection, the spectrometer can be used without an entrance slit over a variety of source distances, with 3–17 nm, 10–80 nm and 24–200 nm spectral coverage. Its modular design is able to match different experimental geometries and configurations. It features an integrated slit holder, gate valve, and filter insertion unit, as well as a 3-axis motorized grating positioning.

Hamamatsu Photonics Europe
Arzbergerstr. 10
82211 Herrsching
Germany
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spectrometers

Hamamatsu Photonics offers a range of spectrometers and spectrum sensors, including mini-spectrometers, FTIR engines, MEMS-FPI spectrum sensors, and Raman spectroscopic modules.

CNI Laser
No. 888 Jinhu Road
High-tech Zone, Changchun 130103
China
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spectrometers

CNI offers fiber-optic spectrometers, multi-channel spectrometers and some spectroscopy systems like a LIBS system, Raman spectrum systems and others which are widely used in spectroscopy applications.

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Metrohm AG
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Microtech Instruments, Inc.
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Nanobase, Inc.
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