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Optique Peter - Optical upright microscope and Horiba triple laser Raman system with microhardness tester
Hot Cell Remotely Operated Optical & Raman Microscope
Optical microscope with Laser Raman Spectroscopy and microhardness capability
- Partner:National Nuclear Laboratory
- Facility:Windscale Laboratory
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Detailed Description
A radiation hardened Olympus upright optical microscope, with integrated triple laser Raman capability (Horiba Scientific). The microscope also has a Vickers microhardness indenter tip, and comes equipped with a series of standards for testing. The microscope is installed in a heavily shielded hot cell, designed for handling ex-service nuclear materials, both fissile and activated. The microscope can be remotely operated, and has bright field and polarised light capability combined with coaxial illumination system.
Uses/Applications
Irradiated (ex-service) reactor materials – particularly ceramics e.g. UO2; oxide layers on metallic substrates, oxide corrosion products, graphitic materials.
Microscope - bright field - Polarisation with crossed polariser / analyser
- Motorised nosepiece
- 6 objectives : 1.25X – 2.5X – 5X – 10X – 50X – 100X
- One Vickers microhardness tester, load range : 10 gf to 400 gf (0.1N to 4N)
- Motorised rotation stage, 360° multi turns
- 3 Mpixel colour camera with 30mm lead shielding
Triple Raman system equipped with 3 confocal super heads from Horiba:
- One Raman confocal super head 532 nm (100mW) + optic fibre, edge and interferential filters for Raman cm-measures from 200 cm-1 to 6700 cm-1 – typical spatial resolution 4µm
- One Raman confocal super head 638 nm (30mW) – typical spatial resolution 4µm
- One Raman confocal super head 785 nm (90mW )- typical spatial resolution 4µm
- Motorised Raman confocal head with 3 operation modes
- 100% Microscope (for imaging / microhardness testing)
- 100% Raman (for spectroscopy)
- 20% microscope / 80% Raman (for laser spot positioning on the sample)
- Spectral range from 400nm to 1100 nm
- Including a 3 position motorised turret for 3 gratings:
- One 1800l/mm grating as specified
- Two additional gratings 2400l/mm and 1200 l/mm
- Neon calibration source with optical fibre coupling to the spectrometer
- One multichannel CCD detector, cooled to -60°C – 1024×256 pixels