19 Jan 2009 Avantes is pleased to announce a revolutionary new optical bench design to be added to the AvaSpec family of fiber optic spectrometers. The new optical bench has a dual internal modestripper along with multiple CPC’s (Compound Parabolic Concentrators) to further reduce straylight levels to less than 0.04%, which equates to an improvement of a factor of 2.5 over competitive instruments. Along with the straylight improvement the new optical bench design features a much higher rigidity resulting in a factor of 20 decrease in strain sensitivity caused by microbending. | 
