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Calibration Guide
With:
ThunderOptics Spectrometers
Mini & SMA
Using a Fluorescent Lamp
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Please, refer to Software User Guide manual, before calibrating the SMA
Spectrometer.
Once you have installed the Spectragryph software and connected the SMA Spectrometer
light the calibration source and select the best ROI (Region Of Interest) for your spectrometer.
Set the best acquisition time (having saturation may lead to incorrect calibration) and acquire a
spectrum :
After acquiring an appropriate spectrum, open the calibration dialog from the "calibr. x
axis" button's drop-down menu.
In the upper field, select the spectrum to be used. Change the peak finding threshold, if
necessary. Select the desired x axis type after calibration on the right side. Below are the fields
for the calibration coefficients, that result from the calibration process.
You will get this view:
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A list of lines will appear in the table. Please, not that not all the lines will be detected by
the software. This depends on the “Peak Finding Threshold” which is set automatically to 15%.
In this case for example, the automatic setting does not detect the structure at 407. But
if we lower the threshold to 5% the 407 peak will be detected:
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Using the reference spectra of an Argon lamp, a Fluorescent Lamp and the table of Argon
lines, fill the table of calibration as following. Please, note the preferred lines (red marks) we use
for calibration:
Click on “Calculate” to calculate the new coefficients of the calibration, select always a 3rd
order for the best results.
You will get the results:
Then click on “Apply”.
Acquire a new spectrum and click on “Calibr.”
The Spectrum is now correctly calibrated:
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The calibration can be saved in a file for a further use. For this clock on “Settings”
Click on save settings, and the file will be saved in the *.sgas format.
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Uploading a Calibration File
If you have purchased a calibrated spectrometer and you want to upload the calibration file or
if you want to use a previous calibration you have saved, click on “Settings” and select “Load
Settings”, load your calibration file (*.sgas) and then click on “Apply”.
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Annex:
Argon Lines table
Argon Emission Lines Spectrum:
Fluorescent Lamp Spectrum:
Please, note that the reference spectrum published on Wikipedia has some mistakes that we
have corrected here.
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