Spectroscopy

Affordable, High-Fidelity Spectroscopy (Entry-Level & Mid-Range)

• Cost-effective yet precise — Pembroke Instruments delivers spectrometers and imaging-spectroscopy systems that combine strong performance (high resolution, sensitivity, reliability) with budget-friendly pricing.

• Accessible R&D and industrial applications — By lowering entry cost, these products make advanced spectroscopy feasible for small labs, startups, or applied-R&D teams — not just large institutions.

Premium-Grade VUV & X-Ray Spectroscopy (Top-End Systems)

• Ultra-high performance for advanced science — Pembroke’s VUV (vacuum ultraviolet) and X-ray spectrometers offer wavelength coverage, detection sensitivity, resolution, and signal-to-noise performance that surpass standard systems — essential for demanding applications like thin-film analysis, semiconductor wafer inspection, material failure analysis, surface chemistry, and advanced research.

• Capability for cutting-edge applications — These top-tier instruments enable measurements and analyses not possible with visible/NIR systems — e.g. deep-UV reflectance/absorbance, core-level X-ray fluorescence, elemental and chemical state analysis, and high-energy spectral mapping.

Avenir Mini Spectrometers

Low Cost Spectrometers

Key Performance & Technical Strengths

• High sensitivity and good stray-light suppression, even at low cost — For example, the smaller models under Avenir’s offering (and sibling series like Avantes Mini-NIR / CompactLine) show that compact spectrometers are capable of respectable signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) and modest stray light. 

• Wide wavelength coverage (especially in NIR) — Their NIR spectrometer models (e.g. SIENA NIR Spectrometer from Avenir) offer wavelengths up to 2100 nm, enabling NIR analysis that previously required much larger and more expensive instruments. 

• Compact size, ruggedness, and suitability for field or embedded use — Avenir advertises their mini / compact spectrometers as “laboratory-grade instruments that fit size, price and reliability requirements for portable and industrial applications.” 

• Flexibility / customization for application-specific requirements — Their compact spectrometers (e.g. ARIS Compact Spectrometer) allow custom wavelength ranges (via different gratings), user-replaceable entrance slits (to trade off sensitivity vs. resolution), and custom sensor/optics configurations. 

• On-board processing / integration readiness — For many of their compact minis, Avenir offers on-board microcontroller-based auto-exposure, averaging, buffering and spectrum processing — meaning easier integration into portable or OEM systems without needing a full external spectrometer bench. 

In short: Avenir’s mini/compact spectrometers deliver many of the performance advantages you expect from “bench-level” instruments (sensitivity, dynamic range, wavelength coverage), but within a much smaller, lower-power, and OEM- / field-ready form factor — which makes them attractive for embedded, industrial, or portable spectroscopy applications.

H+P Spectrometeers

Key Advantages of H+P for VUV / XUV Spectroscopy

• Very broad spectral coverage (deep into VUV/XUV) — H+P instruments support vacuum-ultraviolet and extreme-ultraviolet ranges, e.g. VUV from ~ 80–300 nm (or down to ~40 nm depending on model), and XUV down to a few nm up to the soft-XUV/EUV range. 

• High light collection efficiency (slit-free / flat-field designs) — Some H+P models use a “no-slit” or slit-free design, directly imaging the light source onto the detector. That lets them collect much more flux (often 10×–20× more) than a traditional slit-based spectrometer — a big advantage when working with weak VUV/XUV sources (e.g. high-harmonic generation, plasmas, synchrotron, etc.). 

• Aberration-corrected gratings + stray-light suppression → clean, sharp spectra — The spectrographs use optimized (often grazing-incidence flat-field) gratings that reduce aberrations and minimize stray light, important for resolving narrow spectral features in VUV/XUV without noise or distortion.

• Modular / customizable & vacuum-ready design — H+P offers customization of geometry, gratings, detector types (CCD, MCP, fiber-taper, etc.), chamber integration (in-vacuum, direct coupling to beamlines), and vacuum-compatible optics — crucial because VUV/XUV absorption by air is extreme, so vacuum systems are mandatory. 

• Flexible detection modes & high sensitivity / dynamic range — Because you can choose between different detector types (e.g. cooled CCD, MCP + gated readout, etc.), you get flexibility to optimize for either sensitivity (low-photon flux), dynamic range, or time-resolved/ gated detection — depending on whether you’re doing steady-state spectroscopy, ultrafast pulses, or weak-source detection