Please recommend a simple and unexpensive UV-VIS spectrometer to measure small absorption in transparent optical crystals with aperture ~5x5 mm and length 50 mm. We need to measure absorption as small as 2-5%.
Yes, millimeters. So we need in standard device for regular measurements of light absorption in the samples with optical aperture of 3-7 mm and the length of 30-50 mm.
Maybe an Ocean Optics fiber spectrometer (USB 2000) suits you well, and you also need an external lamp (full spectrum in VU-Vis region) for illuminating the sample