Horiba iHR550 Spectrometer QuickInstallation and Operation Guide
Sabeeh Irfan Ahmad, Physlab, 23 July 2016
The Horiba iHR550 is an imaging spectrometer that can be used both as a
spectrograph and as a monochromator. This is a short guide to installing its software
tools and operating the spectrometer to get a simple wavelength spectrum
measurement.
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Install the pre-requisite software. First should be the USB-spectrometer utilities.
This initializes the spectrometer and controls only the spectrometer, not any
attached detectors (such as the Syncerity CCD camera) or external mirrors and
appendages. In the case of this particular setup, the spectrometer can be
initialized and only the front entrance slit and Grating turret (that rotates the
gratings) can be controlled. Once the utilities are installed, open the
‘
USBSpectrometerControl
’ program.
