Red Tide USB650 Fiber Optic Spectrometer
Installation and Operation Manual
For Product: USB650 Document: 170-00000-RT-02-201603
Page 1: ...Red Tide USB650 Fiber Optic Spectrometer Installation and Operation Manual For Product USB650 Document 170 00000 RT 02 201603...
Page 2: ...from Ocean Optics Inc Trademarks All products and services herein are the trademarks service marks registered trademarks or registered service marks of their respective owners Limit of Liability Ever...
Page 3: ...view 3 How Sampling Works 3 Modular Light Sources and Sampling Accessories 3 Shipment Components 4 Additional Equipment Needed 4 Other Accessories Available 5 Chapter 2 Installing the Red Tide 7 Overv...
Page 4: ...the Red Tide Works 13 Red Tide Components Table 14 Red Tide Specifications 15 CCD Detector Specifications 15 Red Tide Spectrometer 15 10 Pin Accessory Connector Pinout 17 10 Pin Accessory Connector P...
Page 5: ...ns Chapter 3 Troubleshooting Contains recommended steps to isolate and correct common problems Appendix A Specifications Contains technical specifications and connector pinouts for the Red Tide Spectr...
Page 6: ...urces CD that ships with the product Upgrades Occasionally you may find that you need Ocean Optics to make a change or an upgrade to your system To facilitate these changes you must first contact Cust...
Page 7: ...t per nanometer Data programmed into a memory chip on each Red Tide includes wavelength calibration coefficients linearity coefficients and the serial number unique to each spectrometer Our spectromet...
Page 8: ...one Operation CE Certification System Requirements You can use the Red Tide s USB connectivity with any computer that meets the following requirements Operating system is one of the following Windows...
Page 9: ...n in a sampling system as follows 1 The user stores reference and dark measurements to correct for instrument response variables 2 The light from the light source transmits through an optical fiber to...
Page 10: ...ds this calibration data from your spectrometer when it interfaces to a computer via the USB port Note Please save the Wavelength Calibration Data Sheet for future reference Software and Technical Res...
Page 11: ...5 Other Accessories Available Visit us at www OceanOptics com for a complete list of products available for all of your spectroscopy needs Fibers Light Sources Integrated Sampling Systems Cuvettes Fi...
Page 12: ...1 Introduction 6 170 00000 RT 02 201603...
Page 13: ...Troubleshooting for information on correcting a corrupt Red Tide installation Red Tide Installation Note The USB port on a computer can power up to five Red Tide spectrometer channels Systems with mo...
Page 14: ...in the bottom of the graph If you allow light into the spectrometer the graph trace should rise with increasing light intensity This means the software and hardware are correctly installed Note the s...
Page 15: ...r Ocean Optics device will operate properly Follow the applicable steps below to remove the incorrectly installed device device driver and installation files Note If these procedures do not correct yo...
Page 16: ...plorer 2 Navigate to the Windows INF directory Note If the INF directory is not visible you must disable the Hide System Files and Folders and Hide File Extensions for Known File Types options in Wind...
Page 17: ...l you need to do is install the SpectraSuite software then unplug and replug in the spectrometer Technically the driver files for Linux simply give nonprivileged users permission to use newly connecte...
Page 18: ...3 Troubleshooting 12 170 00000 RT 02 201603...
Page 19: ...orks Below is a diagram of how light moves through the optical bench of an Red Tide Spectrometer The optical bench has no moving parts that can wear or break all the components are fixed in place at t...
Page 20: ...Filter 4 Collimating Mirror Focuses light entering the optical bench towards the Grating of the spectrometer Specify standard or SAG Light enters the spectrometer passes through the SMA Connector Slit...
Page 21: ...llowing sections provide specification information for the CCD detector in the Red Tide as well as the Red Tide Spectrometer itself CCD Detector Specifications Specification Value Detector Sony ILX511...
Page 22: ...2 0 nm FWHM Stray light 0 05 at 600 nm 0 10 at 435 nm Dynamic range 2 x 10 8 system 1300 1 for a single acquisition Fiber optic connector SMA 905 to single strand optical fiber 0 22 NA Data transfer r...
Page 23: ...nnector located on the front of the unit as shown Location of Red Tide 10 Pin Accessory Connector 10 Pin Accessory Connector Pinout Diagram When facing the 10 pin Accessory Connector on the front of t...
Page 24: ...3 RS232 Rx Input Not used 4 Lamp Enable Output TTL signal driven Active HIGH when the Lamp Enable command is sent to the spectrometer 5 Continuous Strobe Output TTL output signal used to pulse a strob...
Page 25: ...4 collimating mirror 14 Components Table 14 D detector 15 Detector Collection Lens 14 document audience iii purpose iii summary iii E EEPROM 2 F filter 14 focusing mirror 14 G grating 14 I Installatio...
Page 26: ...14 Software and Resources Library CD 4 specifications 13 detector 15 Red Tide 15 SpectraSuite 3 spectroscopic accessories 8 System Requirements 2 T troubleshooting 9 Linux systems 11 Mac systems 10 Wi...