Ocean Optics, a specialist in miniature photonics, has increased the usability and flexibility of its Jaz modular optical sensing platform with two software options.
The Jaz-Irrad option carries out irradiance measurements, while the Jaz Scripting Language option builds custom applications.
The modular design of the Jaz family is intended to allow it to be customised for a range of applications in field, laboratory or process environments.
With the software options, users will be able to further tailor measurements to their requirements, without any special programming knowledge.
With Jaz-Irrad absolute-irradiance measurement software, the handheld Jaz transforms into a dedicated light meter, allowing users to measure calibrated absolute irradiance without any need for an external computer.
Characteristics such as colour temperature, spectral intensity and colour space values of light-emitting diodes (LEDs), radiant sources and the sun are said to be captured with just three pushes of a button.
Data captured can be post processed to the intensity parameter of choice.
The Jaz Scripting Language tool is claimed to be simple enough for non-programmers to build measurement sequences into a self-contained application.
Operations such as measuring the sugar content of a liquid or expressing reflected colour in colour space values can be designed and tested on a PC and loaded onto the Jaz for execution.