DRS Daylight Spero Chemical Imaging Microscope

In a class of their own, the Spero® microscopes are the world's first and only fully integrated, wide-field spectroscopy microscopy and imaging platforms based on their broadly tunable mid-IR quantum cascade laser technology.

The Spero® microscope is the response to the scientific community’s demand for high-throughput and high-sensitivity, label-free infrared microscopy. Building on Daylight’s expertise in QCL-IR technology, systems, and instrumentation, we pioneered the first wide-field QCL-IR microscope to operate across the important spectral fingerprint region (5-11 µm) in 2014. Since 2014, Daylight has continued to hone and expand the performance of the Spero platform, which is now in its 3rd generation. Spero systems have been successfully installed in over 12 countries and have been field-tested in demanding applications, spanning tissue diagnostics, to cancer research to characterising novel metamaterials and environmental microplastics.

Spero-QT 340

The new Spero-QT 340 system is the third-generation Spero and builds on the successes of its groundbreaking predecessors launched in 2014 and 2017 respectively. Like its predecessors, the Spero-QT 340 provides unrivaled mid-IR spectroscopy, substantially outperforming FTIR microscopes in spatial resolution, speed, and field-of-view while eliminating the need for cryogenic cooling and valuable lab space. Furthermore, it maintains the wide-field, high-resolution attributes of its two predecessors, but with the capability to produce twice the data in one-tenth of the time, while achieving unprecedented signal-to-noise ratios (SNR). The Spero-QT 340 stage can image up to 3 microscope slides, and its larger sample compartment makes it more compatible with microfluidic devices and accessories.

Utilising Daylight’s unique, patented QCL-IR light engine, Spero-QT 340 is faster than Raman and Photothermal IR microscopes by orders of magnitude while avoiding sample auto-fluorescence and sample degradation by highly focused light sources. Using a proprietary wide-field, low-noise instrument architecture, Spero microscopes enable new data collection modalities such as live, real-time chemical imaging, and user-defined sparse discrete frequency data collection. And the best part? The small desktop footprint (dimensions here in cm) makes Spero suitable for labs with space constraints.

Spero-LT 340

The Spero-LT 340 is the latest addition to the Spero product family. The LT offers the same high-performance speed and resolution as Spero-QT, but offers a lower price-point entry into the Spero family for users who only need transmission, wide-field imaging (a perfect match for tissue imaging and microplastics!). Even better, Spero-LT allows users to upgrade to Spero-QT later if needed.. Contact us to learn what configuration options are available.

Features:

• Reflection AND transmission modes
• Live real-time IR imaging
• High sendsitivity measurements (<1 mAU)
• Fast hyperspectral scan speeds (>7 M spectral oints per second)
• Multiple, high-NA, large FOV imaging optics
• Large, flexible sample compartment
• Easy-to-use ChemVision^TM software included
• No cryogenic cooling needed
• Quick setup means more time for analysis

For further information please contact us or download the datasheet.