The Renishaw inVia Raman microscope is considered to be one of the most flexible instruments on the market. The instrument available in CAF is equipped with laser sources at 785, 633 and 532 nm allowing a wide range of samples to be studied and for problems of fluorescence or photolysis to be overcome. The instrument is fitted with a cooled UV near infrared enhanced CCD array detector, and a typical resolution better than 1 cm-1 is easily achievable. The instrument has a selection of different objectives including a water immersion lens for optical trapping or investigating living cells, and with magnifications between x5 and x100, allowing spatial resolution down to a micron, and confocal measurements with 2.5 micron depth resolution. Further accessories include an external fibre optic probe, and full polarisation control of incident and scattered light.
