Peltier Temperature Control
Built for 10 mm Pathlength Cuvettes
USB or Wireless Bluetooth Control
Magnetic stirring
Fiber Optic Couple with SMA Connectors
Dry Gas Purge
The Q-Pod is a Peltier-controlled cuvette holder that delivers accurate temperature control, variable speed magnetic stirring, optical slits, and high-quality fused silica collimating lenses with SMA fiber optic connectors. The temperature of Q-Pod can be set anywhere between -30 °C and 110 °C with an accuracy of 0.05 °C while the operation is controlled via Bluetooth wireless or USB using the computer program Q‐Blue. A dry gas purge may be used to avoid condensation when working at low temperatures. Accessories such as polarizers and filter holders may be inserted in the light paths. Spherical mirrors may be used to enhance excitation and emission signals.
All optics provide focusing and position adjustments for maximizing signal throughput. The Q-Pod is available in three different optical configurations. The CUV-QPod-ABSKIT provides collimating optics to pass light straight through for absorbance and transmittance measurements. The CUV-QPod-FLKIT provides imaging lens systems for excitation and detection of fluorescence emission at a right angle. The CUV-QPod-MPKIT is a multipurpose kit with a combination of optics that may be used for either absorbance or fluorescence measurements.