Renishaw Raman
Moreover, a set of low frequency filters is available allowing measurements 15 cm-1 away from the laser line (532 nm laser). On top a variety of lasers (532 nm, 785 nm and 1064 nm) for Raman, LED illumunation for fluorescent imaging and a 1064 nm laser for optical trapping are available.
Technical details
Raman system and microscope:
- InVia Qontor confocal Raman microscope with Leica DM2700 microscope body (upright) motorized stage with fluorescence filter sets L5 ET and N2.1.
Excitation source:
- Raman Lasers:
- 532 nm Nd:YAG (200 mW)
- 785 nm Diode laser (100 mW)
- 1064 nm Nd:YAG (400 mW)
- Optical Laser Trap: 1064 nm (400 mW)
- HXP120 lamp for fluorescence, transmssion LED
Objectives:
- 5x 0.12NA, N-Plan WD 13.2 mm
- 20x 0.4NA, N-Plan WD 1.1 mm
- 100x 0.85NA, N-Plan WD 0.33 mm
- 50x 0.55NA, LWD Fluotar WD 8 mm
- 100x 0.75NA, LWD Fluotar WD 4.7 mm
- 100x 1.25NA, Oil HC FL Plan WD 0.12 mm
- 63x 0.9NA, WaterHCX PL Apo WD 0.9 mm (for optical trap)
Detectors:
Raman detectors:
- Renishaw CTX.1024A256-FDU: Peletier cooled (-70 °C) UV-NIR enhanced CCD camera (532 nm + 785 nm lasers)
- iDUS InGaAs 1.7 µm array detector (512 pixel array) (1064 nm laser)
cameras:
- internal colour camera for BF detection
- Hi-res video camera (5MP monochrome) for fluorescence detection
Grating for Raman spectroscopy:
- 1200 lines/mm (785 nm laser)
- 1800 lines/mm (532 nm laser)
- 3000 lines/mm (532 nm laser)
- 830 lines/mm (1064 nm laser)
Software:
- WIRE 5.5
Key features:
- spectral acquisition (Rayleigh filters allow measurements to 100 cm-1 from the laser line)
- at a single position (spot)
- as depth series (z-stack)
- as xy map acquisition
- different speed/quality options: Stream LineTM, Stream HRTM, Stream HRTM Rapide modes
- autofocus funtion for surface acquisition: FocusTrackTM
- as 3D volume acquisition
- at a single position (spot)
- Optical laser trap
- Polarisation Raman measurements
- low frequency filters for 532 nm laser (only)
- Rayleigh filters with 15 cm-1 cut-off for 532 nm laser line only (cannot be combined with polarisation)