Are you haunted by autofluorescence? 👻 Unfortunately, we couldn't call Ghostbusters, so we developed the WP XD algorithm to tackle fluorescence backgrounds and noise. In many Raman applications, the sample's autofluorescence can overwhelm the generally weak Raman signal. While traditional approaches like baseline subtraction can remove the fluorescence background, the Raman signal often remains hidden beneath the associated counting noise. Wasatch Photonics' WP XD algorithm uses a U-Net AI network trained to remove both fluorescence backgrounds and noise, helping extract clean Raman signals from challenging autofluorescent samples. No ghostbusting required! 🎃

Wasatch Photonics is happy to welcome Jessica Boyers into the Wasatch Photonics engineering team in Morrisville, NC! Jessica’s role at Wasatch Photonics is a Mechanical Engineer II. She will carry new device concepts through NPI to fully realized, high quality, production-ready products. She spends most of her free time with a group of artists creating an interactive art exhibit and likes to visit animal sanctuaries. Join us in welcoming Jessica to the team!

Every great Spectral Domain OCT image starts with the spectrometer. Our Cobra OCT spectrometers are built around our own patented VPH gratings, designed and made in-house. The result is more signal, low roll-off, and sharp images deeper into your sample, at line rates up to 250 kHz. Whether you need high speed for research, extra depth at 800 nm, visible-light imaging, or a compact module to build into your own product, there's a Cobra configured for it, with 550 to 1600 nm options in more than 30 configurations. Every model comes with OCT-specific software kits and application engineers who help you get to your first image faster. Tell us what you want to see, and we'll help you find the right fit. Visit our website to learn more: wasatchphotonics.com/product…

We’re happy to announce that Thanassis Kokorakis is joining Wasatch Photonics as a Sales Director! As Sales Director, Thanassis and his team will serve the needs of our customers with tailored solutions. Those solutions helping foster lasting & dependable relationships based on our expertise in transmission gratings. He has been working on the business and commercial side of photonics since 1999. One company being Excelitas Technologies Corp., where he supported customer success through laser, opto-mechanical and fiber solutions. He recently shared “photonics for me is the key to life and I cherish working with people to achieve our goals.” In his free time, he spends time with his family and enjoys bicycling along the river Main around Würzburg, Germany. Join us in welcoming Athanasios into the Wasatch family!

Introducing WP XD: Revolutionizing Raman Spectroscopy At the upcoming SciX conference in Sparks, NV, we will be showcasing Wasatch Photonics’ new post-processing neural net algorithm, the WP XD. It is designed to address one of the most significant challenges in Raman spectroscopy– the overwhelming autofluorescence that can obscure Raman signals for many sample types. WP XD effectively removes both the fluorescence background and the associated shot noise, revealing clean Raman signals even from challenging samples. The algorithm is sample-agnostic and quantitative, recognizing Raman peaks in general and preserving both peak position and peak height. This enables you to identify compounds previously lost in fluorescence. It’s fully compatible with any Wasatch Raman system and is fully integrated into the ENLIGHTEN™ and ENLIGHTEN™ Mobile software. Visit us at Booth 213 at SciX to see how WP XD works! #SciX2026 #SciX

The WP X series is a fully configurable Raman spectrometer platform designed to meet your unique application needs. It covers both fingerprint and extended Raman regions, with flexible options for laser excitation wavelength, optical coupling, f/# design, detector cooling, and slit configuration. Contact us today to see how the WP X series Raman spectrometer can meet the exact needs of your application, or better, why not stop by at Booth 213 at SCiX week to learn more in person! #SciX #SciX2026 #RamanSpectroscopy

Built around our proprietary VPH grating, technology, the industry-leading Cobra 1300 series spectrometer minimizes the trade-off between imaging depth and clarity, maximizing data quality for deeper features and wider scattering angles. Its deep-tissue penetration supports fundamental research, pharmaceutical testing, ophthalmology, angiography, and intravascular imaging. The image below shows a cross-section of the human cornea, including the iris and upper surface of the crystalline lens, captured with a Cobra 1300 spectrometer.

Look at how beautiful our OCT grating is when light shines on it!✨As the grating disperses the light into different wavelengths, it creates this beautiful rainbow. 🌈 The clearest and deepest SD-OCT images depend on broad bandwidth and a high signal-to-noise ratio, which is why our trusted and patented HD gratings are designed for exceptional efficiency across all polarizations, even across wide 100-200 nm wavelength ranges. Select from our stock options or leverage our OCT expertise to design your ideal grating!

🎉 We’re celebrating 10 years of Michael Matthews at Wasatch Photonics! If there’s a spectroscopy question to be asked, chances are Michael has an answer—and he’s always happy to share what he knows. As VP of our Spectroscopy division, Michael brings an incredible depth of knowledge, curiosity, and genuine passion for the science to everything he does. From helping customers tackle challenging applications to guiding our team and continuing to learn along the way, his dedication has helped shape our spectroscopy business over the past decade. Thanks, Michael, for 10 years of leadership, enthusiasm, and dedication to Wasatch and our customers. We’re glad you’re part of the team!

What a way to end the summer! 🌎 In just a few weeks, the Wasatch Photonics team traveled from Turkey to Japan to China — meeting so many new faces and learning about so many new applications and use cases along the way. 📍 Stop 1: ICORS | Istanbul, Turkey #ICORS2026 📍 Stop 2: JASIS | Chiba, Japan #JASIS2026 📍 Stop 3: CIOE | Shenzhen, China #CIOE2026 Three conferences, three countries and hundreds of conversations, all linked by one common theme, how the Wasatch's enabling technology can play a positive role in the world around us. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to talk with us along the way. We loved connecting with you!

🧊 Ice gets pretty strange under pressure. Researchers have recreated the extreme conditions thought to exist deep within Uranus and Neptune, observing a new form of superionic ice previously predicted by theory. The discovery could help scientists better understand the unusual magnetic fields of these distant planets. Read more: physics.aps.org/articles/v19…

We are looking forward to tomorrow, as it’s the first day of the China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE 2026)! This year marks the 27th CIOE, and we are happy to be a part of it! CIOE is the world's largest trade exhibition for the optoelectronics industry with over 4,000 exhibitors from more than 30 countries. It is located in the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center in Shenzhen, China. The exhibition runs from September 9th-11th. Visit Wasatch Photonics at the ETSC booth (# 10A36 at Hall 10). We are excited to meet with you! #CIOE2026

Join us in welcoming Isaac Tangen to the Wasatch Photonics engineering team in Logan, Utah! Isaac will be helping optimize various processes, making them more efficient and repeatable. He’ll also be contributing to the research and development side of things. He studied Chemistry at BYU for his undergrad and Emory University for graduate school. While in school, he was a spectroscopist, performing time-resolved sum-frequency generation, mainly of CO-metal systems in an electrochemical setting. As part of that, he became deeply familiar with high-powered ultrafast lasers, optical parametric amplifiers, spectrometers, and various optical equipment. Outside of work, Isaac enjoys hiking, mountain biking, camping with his family, and is an avid visual astronomer. We’re excited to have him join the Wasatch family!

We are excited to announce that we will be showcasing our technology at JASIS 2026, the Japan Analytical Scientific Instruments Show, from September 2nd-4th. It is located at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. JASIS is an advanced exhibition for science, analytical systems and solutions. We’re excited to showcase Wasatch’s point-of-need scientific and OEM Raman solutions and hear about what other companies have created as well! Come hear us talk about Raman solutions for real world problems. See you there! #JASIS2026 #raman #ramanspectroscopy

🐑🌿 Meet the “leaf sheep” — a tiny sea slug with a pretty incredible trick. After eating algae, it holds onto the algae’s chloroplasts and uses them to capture energy from sunlight through a process called kleptoplasty. At just a few millimeters long, this little solar-powered sea creature is a great reminder of how wonderfully strange nature can be. Read more: theguardian.com/environment/… #ScienceSaturday #MarineBiology #Science #Nature

Ten years can change a lot. When David Creasey joined Wasatch Photonics, we were a much smaller company. In the decade since, Wasatch has grown across our facilities, our team, our capabilities, and the customers and applications we serve around the world. As CEO, David has helped guide that transformation with a rare combination of technical curiosity, creativity, determination, and genuine involvement in the day-to-day work of the company. Whether he's weighing in on product strategy, working alongside a department on a new project, meeting with customers, or traveling between our sites, David is rarely far from the details. But perhaps the biggest part of his impact is the way he leads people. David gets to know his team, asks questions, challenges us, encourages us, and genuinely cares about both the people at Wasatch and where the company is going. As Wasatch begins its next chapter as part of FOSS, we're grateful for the leadership that helped bring us here — and excited to see where we go next. Congratulations on 10 years, David. Thank you for everything you've put into Wasatch along the way. We'd make a joke here, but we're fairly certain you'd have a worse pun ready. 😉

No two Raman applications are the same. That’s why we offer comprehensive Raman solutions to adapt to the unique demands of your application. From sensitivity and resolution to size, throughput, and configuration, our Raman systems give you the flexibility to find the right fit– with multiple wavelengths from 532 to 1064 nm. We’re here to help you find the right Raman solution for your application. #ramanspectroscopy #raman

5 days until @icors2026 our first stop in a series of international conferences! 🌎✈️ We’re excited to kick off a busy few months of traveling, connecting with the world's leading scientists and engineers , and talking about all things spectroscopy. See you in Istanbul! #ICORS2026 #RamanSpectroscopy #Photonics #Istanbul

Did you catch the Perseid meteor shower this week? ☄️ The Perseid meteor shower is a yearly event visible in the Northern Hemisphere as Earth passes through the debris trail left behind by Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. It peaked around August 12–13 this year, streaking the night sky with beautiful trails of light. While the peak has passed, the shower is active through August 24. Let us know in the comments if you’ve seen any “shooting stars” this week! Learn more about the Perseids from @NASA : science.nasa.gov/solar-syste… #ScienceSaturday #PerseidMeteorShower #Astronomy #MeteorShower