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FOSS Group acquires Wasatch Photonics November 10, 2025, Hillerød, Denmark – FOSS announces the acquisition of North American spectrometer specialist Wasatch Photonics. The Danish family-owned company continues its investments within photonics and optics, this time with one of the biggest acquisitions in the history of the family business, spending just […]
Wasatch Photonics introduces ultrahigh-resolution OCT spectrometer for unparallelled imaging depths Morrisville, NC – June 9, 2025 – Wasatch Photonics has expanded its Cobra OCT spectrometer product line with an innovative design capable of achieving significantly greater imaging depth than other 800 nm OCT spectrometers. The Cobra-D is a compact, ultrahigh dispersion […]
Using the ENLIGHTEN™ Plugin By: Dr. Dieter Bingemann, Senior Application Scientist Raman spectroscopy combines high specificity with tremendous ease of use to identify unknown compounds. The principle of operation is simple: point and shoot a laser at your sample, collect the light scattered back with a spectrometer, and you get […]
Our annual article in Spectroscopy‘s June Raman supplement for 2024 shows how affordable, reliable Raman instruments can be combined with intuitive AI-driven software to achieve noninvasive process monitoring in bioreactors. Fermentation has long been essential for producing foods like beer, wine, and bread. Modern biotechnology now uses genetically modified microorganisms to […]
Volume phase holographic gratings (VPHGs) manufactured with dichromated gelatin (DCG) have become a staple of astronomical spectrograph design due to their high first order diffraction efficiency, low stray light, and high index modulation, which enables wide spectral bandwidths and angular tuning. At SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2024, we gave […]
Morrisville, NC – January 19, 2024 – Wasatch Photonics is excited to announce its new flagship line of compact Raman spectrometers and systems. The WP Raman X series is the most powerful, comprehensive compact Raman product line ever created, with superior sensitivity and flexibility to serve the needs of researchers […]
Recent technological developments and falling prices of Raman spectrometers have enabled it to become a viable technique for an increasing number of fields and applications, including use in the biomedical and biochemical fields. In this Electro Optics article, Raman to Make Diagnostic Dreams a Reality, author David Stewart discusses with […]
The article “Rapid, Portable Pathogen Detection with Multiplexed SERS-based Nanosensors” featured in Spectroscopy Magazine details a novel assay using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) as a rapid, accurate and portable diagnostic tool to identify the cause of bacterial infections. Antibiotic resistance rates are rising for many common pathogens, putting added pressure […]
We are delighted to share that the January 2023 issue of Laser Focus World magazine will feature an article written by our own Cicely Rathmell, VP of Marketing, and Senior Staff Scientist, Dr. Dieter Bingemann. Getting a good fingerprint via Raman spectra details how variability in Raman spectra can be […]
