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32 SPECTROSCOPY GLOBAL EDITION MAY 2008 at that time based on optical technologies that were originally developed from the telecom industry. At that show, there were at least four new companies or product lines that resulted from these developments, and a company called Valley Instruments was an example that caught my eye. They had novel (in terms of packaging) NIR instruments based on InGaAs technology that were cost effective. I started to look for the company a couple of months later and they had disappeared. I am happy to say that they have now reemerged as BaySpec, Inc. (Fremont, California). The company has a range of new spectrometer products, including the SuperGamut NIR spectrometer. This product was developed for the telecom industry, and so its design benefits from the requirements of that industry, including hermetic sealing and the ability to operate in almost any environment over a broad temperature range ( 10 °C to 60 °C). The spectrometer offers a spectral range of 800–2500 nm, and with low power consumption, it is designed for battery operation. Components, Enabling Technologies, and Accessories One of the fascinating aspects of Pittcon is the broad spectrum of accessories and enabling technologies. Accessories range from modern sample handling accessories, including microscopes and spectral imaging systems, to highly capable, applications-specific software. Enabling technologies include special light sources, specialized detectors, and micro spectral measuring components. The latter includes some of the latest generations of miniature spectrometers. While companies have been producing these for a while, newer systems are becoming available that offer broader spectral ranges, different modes of interfacing (optical fibers being the most common), and smaller, lower-cost packages. I have tried to be as complete as possible in terms of what is included in this section. My background is optical spectroscopy, and so I have tended to gravitate toward my comfort zone. I have received a broad range of materials from different companies covering a diverse range of technologies and applications. I will do my best to represent them here. Companies that make traditional optical–spectral accessories–components such as Harrick (Pleasantville, New York), Pike (Madison, WIsconsin), Specac (Cranston, Rhode Island), International Crystal Laboratories (Garfield, New Jersey), and Axiom Analytical (Tustin, California) are still making and distributing a wide range of accessories for the laboratory, the plant, and specialized applications. Axiom almost exclusively focuses on process analytical accessories. Axiom Analytical presented FNL-120Ne (UV-Vis) and the RFP400Ne (Raman) NeSSI platform-compatible products. NeSSI (“New Sampling System Initiative”) is an industry-defined modular system of sampling accessory components based

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