Ocean Optics has released its OceanView spectroscopy software, combining powerful data processing capabilities with a clear graphical user interface for use with the company's miniature spectrometers. OceanView is highly customisable and includes a schematic view that provides a visual roadmap of data flow from spectral inputs to processed results.

OceanView displays and utilises spectral data from Ocean Optics spectrometers with the added flexibility of integrating temperature, voltage and other input data, allowing users to capture and visualise data from multiple sources. In addition, OceanView saves and reloads previous experiments and has a persistence of settings feature that conveniently recalls acquisition parameters and file locations. Users can customise the OceanView interface once and later access those same settings without having to rebuild them with each new session.

Inspired by customer feedback across a variety of applications, OceanView delivers a high level of experimental control. Its schematic view - a flow chart with each step of the process represented - functions as both a blueprint of the data process from inputs to results and a tool to inspect and modify the process on the fly. It delivers results in the form of an answer, rather than just a simple waveform. More than 70 schematic nodes, or connection points, can be mapped in the schematic view. Other experiment control functions such as spectral splicing, interpolation and device output control are available.

Ocean Optics is a leading supplier of solutions for optical sensing - fundamental methods of measuring and interpreting the interaction of light with matter. With locations in Asia and Europe, the company has sold more than 100,000 spectrometers worldwide since 1992. Ocean Optics' extensive line of complementary technologies includes chemical sensors, analytical instrumentation, optical fibres, thin films and optics.

Hemchandra Sane, India Sales Manager (Ocean Optics),Mumbai. Tel: 022-67650444. Fax: 91-22-67650405. Mobile: 098193-01256. Email: hemchanda.sane@oceanoptics.com