Analysing Solids from Soil to Minerals

Ocean Optics miniature spectrometers can be used for applications that use laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy and/or Raman spectroscopy to applications that use fluorescence or UV-VIS-NIR spectroscopy. Our wide range of systems, components and accessories assure you get the system you need for all your specific applications, whether that is analysing the fluorescence of minerals such as calcite to help target drilling operation or whether that is analysing soil to determine the fertilization level.

For example, a New Mexico-based provider of mapping and quantification services for bodies of water, marshes and irrigated land used an Ocean Optics near-infrared spectrometer, optical fibre and cosine corrector for hyper spectral measurements of wet and dry salt crusts and dust-emissive wind scars on the dry lakebed of Owens Lake. Owens Lake is dry because its water was exported to Los Angeles in the 1920s. The goal was to determine whether plant cover exists to prevent dust release.