Confotec™ series MR350, MR520, MR750 > SOL

 Spatil resolution

 Laser

 Objective lens:

magnification and numerical aperture NA

 Lateral resolution  (XY)

 Axial resolution (Z)

 473 nm?

 100x, NA = 0.95?

 390 nm

620 nm 

 532 nm??

 100x, NA = 0.95?

 440 nm 

 620 nm

 633 nm??

 100x, NA = 0.95?

 520 nm

 730 nm

 785 nm

 100x, NA = 0.95?

 650 nm

 910 nm

 Spectral charecteristics

 Spectral range for Raman spectra detection:

 from 60 cm^-1 to 11600 cm^-1 

 (depends on  the laser excitation wavelength)

 Spectral resolution:

 0.9 cm^-1 (Echelle, 75 l/mm)?

 Scanning?

 Model?

   Scanning modes?

 Confotec™  MR350-SRMSp

 Confotec™  MR750-SRMSp

• 2D / 3D Raman mapping of a sample with full spectra detected at each point using a high speed digital CCD and XY galvano-mirror / Z-piezo scanners
• high speed 2D / 3D Raman imaging (3 sec / frame, 1001 x 1001 points) using a spectral PMT and XY galvano-mirror / Z-piezo scanners
• high speed 2D / 3D Rayleigh imaging (3 sec / frame, 1001 x 1001 points) using a Reflected unit and XY galvano-mirror / Z-piezo scanners
• high speed and high spatial resolution panoramic imaging (Raman and Rayleigh scattering) using high speed PMTs, XY galvano-mirrors and an automated microscope stage

 Confotec™  MR350-SRSp

 Confotec™  MR750-SRSp

• 2D / 3D Raman mapping of a sample with full spectra detected at each point using a high speed digital CCD and XY galvano-mirror / Z-piezo scanners
• high speed 2D / 3D Raman imaging (3 sec / frame, 1001 x 1001 points) using a spectral PMT and XY galvano-mirror / Z-piezo scanners
• high speed 2D / 3D Rayleigh imaging (3 sec / frame, 1001 x 1001 points) using a Reflected unit and XY galvano-mirror / Z-piezo scanners

 Confotec™  MR350-SRM

 Confotec™  MR750-SRM?

• 2D / 3D Raman mapping of a sample  with full spectra detected  at each point using a high speed digital CCD and XY galvano-mirror / Z-piezo scanners
• high speed 2D / 3D Rayleigh imaging (3 sec / frame, 1001 x 1001 points) using a Reflected unit and XY galvano-mirror / Z-piezo scanners
• high speed and high spatial resolution panoramic Rayleigh scattering imaging using a Reflected unit, XY galvano-mirrors and an automated microscope stage

 Confotec™  MR350-SR

 Confotec™  MR750-SR

• 2D / 3D Raman mapping of a sample  with full spectra detected at each point using a high speed digital CCD and XY galvano-mirror / Z-piezo scanners
• high speed 2D / 3D Rayleigh imaging (3 sec / frame, 1001 x 1001 points) using a Reflected unit and XY galvano-mirror / Z-piezo scanners

 Confotec™

 MR750-S

• 2D / 3D Raman mapping of a sample  with full spectra detected at each point using a high speed digital CCD and XY galvano-mirror / Z-piezo scanners

 microscope

 Type, model:

 Upright Nikon Ni-U

 Objective lenses:

 100х NA-0.95, 40х NA-0.75, 20х NA-0.50 and other

 Eyepieces:

 10x, 12.5x, 15x

 * Motorized stage:

 - travel range XY:

 X=114 mm, Y=75 mm?

 - position repeatability:

 < 0.5 μm?

 - metrical accuracy:

 0.06 μm / 1 mm?

 - minimal step:

 0.02 μm?

 Manual focusing along Z:

 - travel range:

 10mm

 - focusing mechanism sensitivity:

 0.1 mm/turn

 **Z-scanner:

 - objective lens travel range

 80 μm?

 - minimal step:

 50 nm?

 - repeatability:

 < 6 nm ?

 High-resolution digital camera:

 With Peltier cooling

 - type:

 Digital color CCD camera 

 - sensor:

 4/3", 2048 x 2048 pixels

 - cooling:

 Peltier cooling

 (the temperature of 20 °C below the ambient temperature)

 - pixel size:

 7.4 x 7.4 μм

 - ADC:

 14 bit, 16 frames / sec

 Without cooling

 - type:

 Digital color CCD camera 

 - sensor:

 1/2", 2048 x 1536 pixels

 - pixel size:

 3.2 x 3.2 μм

 - ADC:

 10 bit, 12 frames / sec

 Laser light input:

 Three-position automatic turret

  * for SRMSp and SRM configurations?

 Raman optical unit

 Optimized optics for the spectral range:

 VIS and NIR (400-1100 nm)

 Laser radiation delivery:

 each of the built-in lasers ? direct input; 

 785 nm ? direct input

 Beam expander:

 Magnification factor 2^х ? 5^х?

 Edge filters unit:

 Monostatic unit with two Edge filters,  manual change

 Confocal pinhole:

 Optical fiber Ø 50 μm

 Laser beam attenuator:

 continuously Variable Neutral Density Filter (VND),

 optical density range of 0 - 3

 Imaging monochromator-spectrograph

 Confotec™  MR350?

 Confotec™   MR520?

 Confotec™   MR750?

 Monochromator-spectrograph model:?

 MS3504i?

 MS5204i?

 MS7504i?

 Optical scheme:

 Czerny-Turner

 Czerny-Turner

 Czerny-Turner

 Ports:

 1 input, 2 output

 1 input, 2 output

 1 input, 2 output

 Focal length (output):

 350

 520

 750

 F/number (entrance):

 1 / 3.8

 1 / 5.4

 1 / 8.9

 Horizontal magnification:

 1.09

 1.09

 1.05

 Vertical magnification:

 1.49

 1.29

 1.05

 Vertical spatial resolution (astigmatism)

 < 15 μm

 < 15 μm

 < 15 μm

 Reciprocal linear dispersion:

 *2.37 nm/mm

 *1.50 nm/mm

 *1.02 nm/mm

 Spectral resolution:

 *0.07 nm

 **0.007 

 (0.25 cm^-1) nm?

 *0.02 nm

 Wavelength accuracy:

 *±0.125 nm

 *±0.05 nm

 *±0.05 nm

 Repeatability:

 *± 0.03 nm

 *±0.008 nm

 *±0.006 nm

 Grating mounting:

 Automated 

 4-grating turret

 Automated 

 4-grating turret

 Automated

 4-grating turret

 Grating wavelength repeatability:

 *± 0.03 nm

 *±0.008 nm

 *±0.006 nm

 Grating vertical image repeatability:

 ±50 μm

 ±50 μm

 ±50 μm

 *  with 1200 l/mm grating and  15 ?m slit at  546 nm

** with Echele grating (75 l / mm) and 15 ?m slit at 546 nm, order 44

 Imaging monochromator-spectrograph MS 3504i

 Laser wave-

 length, nm

 Grating, l/mm

 300

600 

 1200

1800 

Spectral range for Raman detection, cm^-1 

 473

0-12000 

0-9400 

 532

 0-9700

0-7000 

 633

0-6700 

0-4000 

 785

0-3600 

0-1000 

 Maximal spectral range detected 

 with CCD

 (2048x122 pixels, 12 μм pixel size), см^-1

 473

7000 

4210 

2310 

1550 

 532

5700 

3400 

1840 

1210 

 633

4280 

2470 

1300 

820 

 785

2930 

1650 

830 

480 

 Spectral resolution 

 with CCD 

 (12 μм pixel size, 14 μм entrance slit), см^-1

 473

12.850 

6.440 

3.185 

2.050 

 532

10.165 

5.090 

2.505 

1.590 

 633

7.190 

3.595 

1.745 

1.070 

 785

4.675 

2.330 

1.100 

0.620 

Spectral resolution 

 with CCD 

 (12 μм pixel size, 14 μм entrance slit), см^-1

 473

6.150 

3.080 

0.975 

0.250 

 532

4.865 

2.430 

0.755 

0.230 

 633

3.440 

1.715 

0.505 

0.190 

 785

2.235 

1.110 

0.295 

0.145 

 Imaging monochromator-spectrograph MS 7504i

 Laser wave-

 length, nm

 Grating, l/mm

 300

600 

 1200

1800 

Spectral range for Raman detection, cm^-1 

 473

0-12000 

0-9300 

 532

 0-9700   

0-6900 

 633

0-6700 

0-3900 

 785

0-3600 

0-900 

 Maximal spectral range detected 

 with CCD

 (2048x122 pixels, 12 μм pixel size), см^-1

 473

3910

2130 

1070 

680 

 532

 3150 

1690 

840 

520 

 633

 2280 

1200 

580 

340 

 785

 1520 

780

360 

185 

 Spectral resolution 

 with CCD 

 (12 μм pixel size, 14 μм entrance slit), см^-1

 473

 3.785 

1.915

 0.920 

0.570 

 532

3.060

 1.510 

0.715

0.435 

 633

 2.160 

 1.060 

 0.490 

0.285

 785

 1.400 

 0.680 

 0.305 

0.160 

 Digital spectral CCD camera

 Sensor type:

 back-thinned CCD, 2048 x 122 pixels

 Pixel size:

 12 x 12 μm

 Active area size:

 24.576 x 1.464 mm (W x H)

 Wavelength range:

 from 200 to 1100 nm

 Cooling with temperature stabilization:

 two stage Peltier cooling, up to  - 45 °С (water cooling)

 ADC:

 16 bit

 Sensitivity:

 1 photon / 1 count ADC (at 650 nm)

 Dynamic range:

 not less than 10 000

 Synchronizationя:

 internal, external

 Interface:

 Ethernet

 PMT for spectral measurements

 A Hamamatsu PMT unit (model  H7844 ) with the built-in one-stage  air cooled Peltier element is used for 

 Ra-man spectra detection:

 Spectral range:

 185 - 900 nm

 Photocathode light sensitivity:

 450 μА/lm

 Anode light sensitivity:

 >5000 А/lm

 Anode dark current (in 3 minutes after start cooling):   

 <0,05 nA

 Max. cooling temperature (ΔТ):

 20ºС

 Fast scanning unmit X.Y

 Scanners:

 galvanometer scanners with X, Y mirrors

 Scanning modes:

 raster high-speed and start-stop

 Positioning accuracy:

 < 30 nm

 Scanning area:

 100 um х 100 um (with 100Х objective lens)

 Scanning speed:

 3 s / frame 1001 х 1001 pixels

  Confocal Laser Microscope unit

 Pre-pinhole lens positioner:

 three-axis (X, Y, Z), manual control

 Confocal pinhole:

 unregulated,  Ø 30 μm

 Detector:

 Hamamatsu Photosensor module H6780-01

 532 nm built-in laser

 Type:

 ОЕМ Diode-pumped solid-state laser (DPSS)

 Wavelength:

 532 nm

 Output power:

 22±2 mW

 Output beam diameter:

 1.1 ± 0.1 mm

 Beam divergence:

 <0,6±0.1 mrad

 Spectral line width:

 0.00001 nm

 Coherence length:

 >50 m

 Transverse mode:

 TEMoo, M² < 1.2 (1.05 typ.)?

 Polarization:

 >100:1, horizontal

 Long term power stability:

 <2% / 8 h.

 Warm-up time:

 <10 minutes

 473 nm built-in laser

 Type:

 ОЕМ Diode-pumped solid-state laser (DPSS)

 Wavelength:

 473 nm

 Output power:

 50 mW

 Output beam diameter:

 Beam divergence:

 <1.2 mrad

 Spectral band width:

 <30 MHz

 Coherence length:

 >10 m

 Transverse mode:

 TEMoo, M² < 1.1

 Polarization:

 >100:1, horizontal

 Long term power stability:

 <3% / 8 h.

 Beam point stability:

 <10 mrad

 Warm-up time:

 <10 minutes

 633 nm built-in laser

 Type:

 Helium-neon laser

 Wavelength:

 633,8 nm

 Output power:

 >10 mW

 Output beam diameter:

 Beam divergence:

 <1.24 mrad

 Spectral line width:

 341 MHz

 Mode composition:

 >90 % TEMoo

 Polarization:

 500:1

 Long term power stability:

 <5% / 8 h.

 Beam point stability:

 <0.03 mrad

 Warm-up time:

 <15 minutes

 785 nm built-in laser

 Type:

 Wavelength:

 785 ± 0.2 nm

 Output power:

 100 mW

 Output beam diameter:

 Beam divergence:

 <1.0 mrad

 Spectral bandwidth:

 <1 MHz

 Beam quality:

 M² < 1.65?

 Polarization:

 vertical ±5°

 Long term power stability:

 <1% / 8 h.

 Warm-up time:

 <10 minutes

 Models

 Confotec™ 

MR350/520/750-SRMSp

 Confotec™ 

MR350/520/750-SRM

 Confotec™ 

 Confotec™ 

MR350/520/750-SR

 Confotec™ 

 Mapping?

 3 D (X Y Z)

 3 D (X Y Z)

 3 D (X Y Z)

 3 D (X Y Z)

 3 D (X Y Z)

 Scanning

 XY galvano + 

Z piezo

 XY galvano + 

Z piezo

 XY galvano,

Z piezo

 XY galvano,

Z piezo

 XY galvano,

Z piezo

 Fast Scanning for 

 Confocal Raman  imaging

 Yes

 Yes

 Fast Scanning for

 Confocal laser imaging

 Yes

 Yes

 Yes

 Yes

 Data:

 2D, 3D

 2D, 3D

 2D, 3D

 2D, 3D

 2D, 3D

 Microscope?

 upright

 Color video CCD:

 Yes

 Raman Optical Unit?

 Location:

 integration with an optical microscope

 Optical alignment:

 no need

 Rayleigh rejection filters

 two edge filters, manually replacing

 Imaging monochromator-spectrograph ?

 Focal length:

 350/520/750 mm

 Exit port:

 2

1 

2 

1 

1 

 Exit port selection:

 automated exit mirror

 Grating:

 4  

4 

4 

4 

4 

 Grating mounting:

 automated 4-grating turret

 Light input:

 one-channel optical fiber

 Digital spectral CCD camera?

 Number of pixels:

 2048 x 122

 Pixel size:

 12 x 12 ?м

 Cooling with temperature  stabilization:

 two-stage Peltier cooling with temperature stabilization, up to   - 45°С (water cooling)

 Excitation lasers (1 built-in and 1 external) 

 Built-in laser?

 Wavelength:

 473 nm or 532 nm

 Light input:

 direct

 External laser?

 Wavelength:

 633 nm or 785 nm

 Light input:

 633 nm ? fiber, 785 nm ? direct

 Laser beam diameter  control?

 Zoom beam expander, manual

 Laser power control?

 continuous VND (OD0-3), motorized 

 Confocal pinhole?

 Confocal Raman imaging:

 fiber Ø 50 μм

 Confocal laser imaging:

 fixed Ø 30 μм

 fixed Ø 30 μм

 fixed Ø 30 μм

 fixed Ø 30 μм

 Reflected Unit?

 Yes

 Yes

 Yes

 Yes

 Built-in calibration lamp?

 Yes

 Built-in calibration lamp?

 Yes

 Yes

 Motorized microscope  stage

 Yes

 Yes