Photon Systems, Inc. products

First responders and government agencies need to detect increasingly smaller concentrations of chemical and biological materials in water, in air, or on surfaces at increasingly larger standoff distances and at increasingly smaller instrument SWAP/C. Deep UV methods including resonance Raman and native fluorescence have demonstrated these capabilities over the years, but only using large laboratory instruments not suitable for convenient field use or for being hand-held. These deep UV methods have demonstrated the ability to perform detection in full daylight and standoff conditions and at higher sensitivity and specificity than is possible using near UV, visible, or IR methods.

TUCS 1000 is a handheld instrument for providing detection of laser based detection of trace chemical in the fg amount or pg/cm² concentration range using deep UV fluorescence with excitation at 224.3 nm or 248.6 nm. TUCS 1000 is designed to be employed as sensitive, in situ, autonomous, industrial or environmental monitors. The sensors developed by Photon Systems operate in the deep ultraviolet to enhance their sensitivity and specificity in identifying certain molecular structures such as organic molecules and well as other molecules that are optimally excited in the UV to emit fluorescence and Raman.

TraC is a miniature handheld instrument for measuring trace chemical contaminants on surfaces, especially focused on cleaning validation and process control for food or pharmaceutical product manufacturing. The TraC sensor has a ppb limit of detection for many chemical & biological materials on surfaces as well as small concentrations of chemical and microbial material in liquids. It also has a large depth of focus.