Which ICP-OES Optical Technology Offers Superior Performance: Echelle or ORCA?

MAHWAH, N.J. - July 29, 2015 - PRLog -- The issue of which ICP-OES (http://icp-oes.spectro.com/echelle-vs-orca) optical technology delivers the superior performance — Echelle or ORCA — is explored in a new whitepaper available to download at http://icp-oes.spectro.com/echelle-vs-orca.

Today’s modern ICP-OES models take one of two approaches to optical design: echelle-based or Rowland Circle-based (as in Optimized Rowland Circle Alignment (http://icp-oes.spectro.com/echelle-vs-orca), or ORCA) technologies. Laboratory managers require a thorough understanding of each in order to select the appropriate instrument for their specific elemental analysis applications.

The new paper, “Which ICP-OES Optical Technology Offers Superior Performance? Echelle vs. ORCA (http://icp-oes.spectro.com/echelle-vs-orca)” discusses the key advantages and disadvantages of both approaches to ICP-OES design.

In the discussion of the echelle (http://icp-oes.spectro.com/echelle-vs-orca) optical technology, the paper explores the issue of light loss and stray light; optical limitations; spectral order overlap; wavelength-dependent resolution; problematic radial-view performance; and supplementing or replacing radial-view instruments with axial-view or dual-view systems.

In a review of the ORCA (http://icp-oes.spectro.com/echelle-vs-orca) optical technology for spectrometers, the paper explores the topics of light loss; optical performance; spectral order overlap; wavelength resolution; radial-view performance, and other considerations.

The new whitepaper, “Which ICP-OES Optical Technology Offers Superior Performance? Echelle vs. ORCA (http://icp-oes.spectro.com/echelle-vs-orca)” is available for download at http://icp-oes.spectro.com/echelle-vs-orca, from SPECTRO Analytical Instruments, a leading global supplier of analytical instruments for optical emission and X-ray fluorescence spectrometry for elemental analysis.

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