CPL-300 Circularly Polarized Luminescence Spectrophotometer from JASCO

The CPL-300 Circularly Polarized Luminescence Spectrophotometer supplements the information obtained from other chiroptical techniques such as electronic or vibrational circular dichroism. Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is widely used in the study of optically active substances. CD spectroscopy provides information about the structure of optically active substances in the electronic ground state, however, CPL spectroscopy provides information about excited states. The two techniques are therefore complimentary.
The CPL-300 uses the original 180° fluorescence collection approach proposed by Steinberg. The standard ozone-free 150W Xe lamp can be user-replaced with an Hg/Xe source. The instrument’s unique double-prism excitation and emission monochromators offer very low stray-light and no spurious linear polarization effects caused by instruments that use diffraction gratings. These are both extremely important as CPL signals tend to be very weak.