Te cooled linear ingaas array spectrometer (12 pages)
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Glacier TE Cooled Linear CCD Array Spectrometer User Manual 19 Shea Way, Newark, DE 19713 Tel: (302) 368-7824 Fax: (302) 368-7830 Web: www.bwtek.com 290020203-C (10/20/2014) Copyright 2014 B&W Tek, Inc.
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Glacier 1) Introduction The Glacier™X is a low cost and high performance thermoelectric cooled (TEC) linear CCD spectrometer equipped with 2048 elements with a built-in 16 bit digitizer with high speed USB 2.0/1.1 interface. Compared with non-cooled CCD spectrometers the Glacier™X offers a much higher dynamic range, greatly reduced dark counts and superior long term operation stability making it ideal for low light level detection and long term monitoring applications.
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Glacier 4) Installation Software / Hardware Installation There will be a “BWSpec Software & Spectrometer Installation Guide” located on your software USB drive. Refer to this guide for installation instructions. 5) External trigger/Aux port Glacier™X spectrometer has an available External trigger/Aux port option.
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Glacier The wired trigger connector may be used to test the above trigger function if the connector is included in the package. After enabling the external trigger from the BWSpec the triggered acquisition by the spectrometer may be achieved by momentarily shorting the two leads from the wired trigger connector.
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