The Jaz Club

Analysis of UV-Vis reflectance and reflected color of biological subjects – birds, insects, fruits, vegetables and more – is conveniently achieved with a Jaz modular sensing system. Considerations such as instrument footprint, light source requirements and power needs are resolved using a Jaz configured for field portability.

We’ve incorporated our breakthrough chemical sensing technology with a new generation of sol-gel materials to encapsulate pH dyes for optical pH sensing. Now, you can have a complete handheld Jaz system for pH sensing that delivers a fast response time, gamma resistance, lower maintenance and more accurate measurement of pH content.

Jaz went along with a  team of researchers to beautiful Costa Rica recently and made a new fan:

A group of scientists and zoologists from the University of Manchester and Chester Zoo headed into the rainforest to study the amphibians as well as the causes for their diminishing numbers.
You can read more on BBC’s “Frog Blog” [...]

Measuring solar irradiance is a popular application with our customers. Some measure the UV-VIS spectra while others like to measure the complete range from approximately 200 nm to 2500 nm.
In this experiment, we’ll measure relative irradiance of solar light. Normally, one would measure absolute irradiance but not this time around!
The setup looks like this:

Jaz Spectrometer
CC-3 [...]

Biologists are very interested to see what part of the spectrum is absorbed by various leaves (photosynthesis).
Here, we’ll do a quick setup which allows us to measure this absorbance using the Jaz spectrometer and a reference lightsource.
This setup has the following:

Jaz Spectrometer
Jaz Battery Pack
Collimating lens 74-UV DA (Direct Attach) or 74-UV with fiber
WS1 Reflection standard

And, [...]

Valuable real-time data can now be collected in a variety of settings with the Jaz, a handheld, field-portable analytical instrument from Ocean Optics that combines the power of optical sensing with onboard computing power.  The level of flexibility Jaz provides will change analysis in custom applications ranging from crop management and environmental analysis to UV [...]

The Jaz from Ocean Optics is a modular, handheld optical-sensing instrument now available for radiometric analysis of LEDs, flat panel displays, lamps and other radiant sources. With its small footprint and convenient onboard display, Jaz is ideal for relative intensity measurements of incandescent, high-intensity discharge, UV curing and fluorescent lamps, as well as low-power sources [...]

Now available from Ocean Optics is a modular optical sensing platform that easily integrates multi-point spectral sampling and reference monitoring into process streams and other sample environments.
Jaz is a family of stackable, modular and autonomous components that share common electronics and communications. At its heart is a miniature CCD-array spectrometer, available with user-selected grating and [...]