Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp

325 Chapala Street
Santa Barbara,  CA 
United States
https://www.photothermal.com/

Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp (PSC) is a Santa Barbara, CA, based scientific equipment company that pioneered sub-micron IR microscopy and spectroscopy. PSC’s vision is to apply the power of sub-micron IR spectroscopy to high value problems in both industry and academia through the adoption of O-PTIR and co-located multi-modal techniques. With the introduction of the mIRage® product, we established a breakthrough sub-micron-Infrared spectroscopy and microscopy technique called Optical Photothermal Infrared (O-PTIR). O-PTIR eliminates key limitations of traditional IR spectroscopy, providing sub-micron IR spatial resolution with transmission-like FTIR quality spectra in non-contact reflection mode and no Mie scattering effects. The subsequent release of the mIRage-R product combined O-PTIR with Raman, introducing the world’s first simultaneous Infrared and Raman microscope and spectroscopy system. Our product provides simultaneous IR and Raman data from the exact same spot, time, and sub-micron spatial resolution, enabling complementary and confirmatory data from both techniques. The launch of the mIRage-LS extended platform capabilities by combining O-PTIR with co-located fluorescence microscopy, further improving IR spatial resolution to sub-500nm. The mIRage-LS allows O-PTIR technology to address high value life science research problems, unlike conventional IR microscopy.