06.09.2021 • News

Mit akkreditierten Prüfverfahren zu UVC-Kalibrierstandards

Instrument Systems ist seit 2009 für Prüfungen im Bereich Lichttechnik nach DIN EN ISO / IEC 17025 akkreditiert und bietet seit neuestem auch die akkreditierte Prüfung von Strah-lungsleistung und Lichtstrom mit dem Verfahren der „Goniospektroradiometrie von optischen Strahlungsquellen“ an. Das Verfahren ermöglichte die Entwicklung von UVC-LED-Referenzquellen mit rückführbaren Referenzwerten höchster Genauigkeit für Strahlungsleis-tung und Bestrahlungsstärke. Diese Referenzquellen werden für das Monitoring sowie die Kalibrierung von UV-Messequipment, wie z.B. der ISP-PTFE-Serie, verwendet.

The accreditation of test labs is extremely important for photometry customers. With it they receive the assurance that their measuring equipment delivers reliable and traceable results. At the same time, the accredited testing of the measuring instruments often used in production guarantees the high quality of the final products and instills a high level of confidence in the final customer. Instrument Systems therefore maintains a test lab accredited to DIN EN ISO / IEC 17025 that offers traceable tests of all relevant photometric and radiometric measurands from UV to the NIR range with numerous measuring procedures and is flexibly and securely positioned for the future.

Laboratory setting (Source Instrument Systems)

Instrument Systems metrological traceability (Source Instrument Systems)

The highly experienced lighting technology engineers at Instrument Systems developed a test procedure that is conformant with standard CIE 239:2020 and accredited for the production of high-precision UV-LED reference sources. The traceable reference values for radiant flux are determined by the measurement of UV-LED sources with a goniospectroradiometer consisting of a high-precision goniometer of the LGS series and a CAS spectrometer – likewise traceably tested by the test lab – with an irradiance optical probe.

Extremely low extended measurement uncertainties (k = 2) of reference values of only 4.5 % (UV-C), 3.5 % (UV-B) and 2 % (UV-A) can be achieved with this combination. Details of the procedure have been published in several trade magazines in 2020 and 2021.