LKS.60 Nanosecond Laser Flash Photolysis Spectrometer

Overview

Applied Photophysics has been supplying laser flash photolysis instruments since 1973. The experience gained during this period has resulted in the LKS.60 Spectrometer which offers both ease of use and flexibility with respect to special configurations. Our long experience and large customer base are your assurances that we provide world class expertise and technical support for your kinetics research with the LKS.60 Spectrometer.

The Laser Flash Photolysis technique provides one of the most effective methods for studying, by direct measurement, the reactions of transient species such as radicals, excited states or ions, in chemical and biological systems. The use of a laser for sample excitation gives the technique the specificity of single wavelength excitation and nanosecond time resolution. Laser flash photolysis has been used increasingly in the area of bioinorganic reaction mechanisms, for example, studies on electron transport in cytochromes or ligand binding by haem containing proteins. More exotic applications involving the Laser Flash Photolysis technique have recently included studies on the conformational changes of functional proteins that occur during the course of their activity.

An increasingly popular aspect of the LKS.60 Spectrometer, particularly for life science and biochemical research, is that it can be upgraded to a combined laser flash photolysis and stopped-flow system and/or flow-flash system.