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|Webcasts|June 27, 2023

Empowering Innovation: Unlocking Opportunities with Smaller and Ultra-high Dynamic Range Spectrometers

Author(s)Hamamatsu

Webinar Date/Time: Wednesday, July 19, 2023 at 10am EDT | 7am PDT | 3pm BST | 4pm CEST

Unveil industry insights: miniaturized spectrometers, precise ATR measurements, and the game-changing OPAL-LUXE spectrometer. Explore new possibilities in monitoring weak and high intensity signals in various applications.

Register Free: https://www.spectroscopyonline.com/spec_w/empowering

Event Overview:

This webcast provides valuable insights into pressing industry challenges, with a specific focus on three key areas. Firstly, it addresses the increasing demand for miniaturized spectrometers that enable rapid analysis and cater to critical sectors such as precision agriculture and environmental monitoring. Secondly, the webcast highlights the importance of employing improved illumination techniques when conducting Attenuated Total Reflectance (ATR) measurements, thereby enhancing the accuracy and reliability of the results. Additionally, it emphasizes the significance of ultra-high dynamic range spectrometers, namely Hamamatsu’s new OPAL-LUXE, which opens new possibilities in applications that require monitoring weak and high intensity signals in one measurement, like in plasma physics and monitoring in laser-based applications.


Key Learning Objectives:

  • Miniaturized spectrometers: exploring their role in speeding up chemical analysis in precision agriculture and environmental monitoring
  • Improved illumination techniques: addressing the challenges and advancements in Attenuated Total Reflectance (ATR) measurements
  • Ultra-high dynamic range spectrometers: analyzing new opportunities enabled by an unprecedented ultra-high dynamic range of 2’500’000:1

Who Should Attend:

  • Product developers, optical engineers, R&D engineers, QA/QC engineers
  • Product managers, Business developers
  • Academic researchers involved with spectral measurements
  • Professionals from life science, medical, pharma, manufacturing, semiconductor testing, material sorting, and environmental sectors
  • Experts involved with Raman spectroscopy, fluorescence/luminescence spectroscopy, FTIR measurements, plasma monitoring, laser measurements, thin film measurements

Speakers:

Gaetano Panagia
Technical Marketing Engineer
Hamamatsu Photonics Europe

Gaetano Panagia is a technical marketing engineer at Hamamatsu Photonics Europe. Gaetano has been with the company since 2021 and specializes in the promotion and sales support of photonics components, including mid-infrared detectors, light sources, and spectrometers. He actively promotes the adoption of Hamamatsu's products for environmental sensing and agri-photonics applications.

Prior to joining Hamamatsu, Gaetano worked as an application engineer in the US, where he assisted customers in selecting machine vision components such as lenses, detectors, illumination, and software.

Gaetano's educational background includes a master’s degree in biomedical engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 2016.

Dr. Frank Tobias
Leader Technical Marketing Engineers Europe
Hamamatsu Photonics Europe

Dr. Frank Tobias is leading the technical marketing engineer group of Hamamatsu Photonics Europe. The group is covering a wide range of products and is involved in analysis and development of business in Europe.

Prior to joining Hamamatsu, Frank has worked many years as product manager and in product development.

Frank’s educational background includes a PhD in physics from TU Darmstadt and MSc in biophysics from the TU Kaiserslautern.

Register Free: https://www.spectroscopyonline.com/spec_w/empowering


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