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The document explains the ICP optical system’s role in separating plasma emission into element-specific wavelengths and efficiently focusing resolved light onto the detector. It compares radial, axial, and dual-view configurations, discusses optical-design challenges, and outlines fore-optics and polychromator requirements for sensitivity, stability, minimal interferences, reduced optical surfaces, and low detection limits across a broad wavelength range.","Technical Note: 40985  \nKey Words  \n• iCAP 6000 Series  \n• ICP, ICP-OES, ICP-AES  \n• Optical design  \n• Spectrometer  \nThermo Scientific i CAP 6000 Series ICP: A Dramatically Different Approach to ICP Optical Design  \nKey benefits  \n• Echelle polychromator design for rapid, simultaneous multi-element analysis  \n• Low running costs enabled through compact spectrometer design with fast, efficient optical gas purge  \n• High sensitivity-high light transmission, optimized signal-to-noise and low limits of detection thanks to the low number of reflective optical surfaces  \n• Fewer interferences, easier method developmentoutstanding resolution reduces spectral overlap, reducing the need for mathematical interference corrections  \n• Wavelength coverage of 166-847 nm enables access to the most comprehensive range of useful analytical lines  \n• Unparalleled stability provided by a unique spectrometer design, clever thermal design properties and thermostatic control  \nIntroduction – The functions and design considerations of ICP optical components  \nInductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry is an elemental analysis technique that derives its analytical data from the emission spectra of elements excited within a high-temperature argon plasma. The ultimate purpose of the ICP optical system is to separate the ICP source emission into element-specific wavelengths and to focus the resolved light onto the detector as efficiently as possible. The optical spectrometer is the heart of the modern ICP instrument and is comprised of two sections, the fore-optics and the polychromator, with the detector attached.  \nPlasma viewing configuration options  \nICP instruments can be categorized as radial, axial or dual view configurations. In the radial configuration, the plasma is viewed from the side, while in the axial configuration, the plasma is viewed end-on (along the length of the plasma). In the dual view configuration, the plasma is viewed in either the radial or axial orientation (see Figures 1-3) .  \n(Duo) torch  \nFigure 1: Plasma viewing options in optical ICP instruments  \nThe dedicated radial plasma view, is traditionally the best configuration for high dissolved solids and other complex matrices, due to lower levels of matrix interferences in the region of interest. The radial view offers less sensitivity than axial, however it is preferable for analyzing difficult samples such as organics or very high dissolved solid matrices.  \nThe axially viewed plasma configuration offers greater sensitivity but also has higher susceptibility to matrix interferences. However, combining an axial view with an automatically switchable radial view in the dual view configuration produces a sensitive, versatile instrument with the ability to handle a wide range of samples with complex matrices.  \nChallenges for optical design  \nFore-optics  \nThe fore-optics need to focus the emitted light onto the entrance slit as efficiently as possible and to provide a light path suitable for transmitting in either radial or axial plasma views, or both, for systems which have that capability. In dual view systems, changing plasma views should be a fast, automated process to avoid undesirable increases in sample analysis time and subsequent degradation of productivity and cost efficiency. Figure 2 shows the relative position of the fore-optics and indicates their function in association with the other major components of an ICP instrument.  \nFigure 2: A simplified linear schematic of an ICP instrument showing the purpose of each major component  \nTo achieve the required functions within an ICP instrument, the fore-optics should exhibit the following characteristics:  \n• Maximum light transfer for the most sensitive instrument.  \n- This requires the absolute minimum number of lightreflecting surfaces, as these will absorb or scatter some of the light. 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