Commentaries
Here's what the experts have to say about our products:Optics & Photonics News / July 1992
"Atomic Data Center for Your PC -- As spectroscopists, we have often spent hours leafing through pages of wavelengths and energy levels in atomic data books, seeking an unidentified spectral line or an atomic vapor that matches the frequency of a laser system. We have often thought that a computer-based data center would be ideal for these tasks, but we assumed that a large computer and great expense would be required. Now we have discovered a series of PC based software/ data packages with multiple personalities, offered by Atomic Engineering Corp. that do these tasks and much more.Interesting mouse-driven features include "rubber band" construction of the transition lines in the Grotrian diagram. Point to a lower level, click, and a rubber band-like line can be stretched to the upper-level, where the line is attached by a click. The transition frequency or wavelength is then noted on the screen. A second mouse feature helps in the search for a given line frequency on the Grotrian diagram. A vertical bar, whose size is proportional to the sought frequency (e.g., a dye laser frequency), is set on the screen and dragged around by the mouse until a pair of levels having the same separation is found on the Grotrian diagram."
-- James J. Wynn, IBM Watson Research Center
-- Charles M. Brown, Navy Research Laboratory
Spectrochimica Acta, V. 47B, pp 1546, 1992
"Atomic Engineering Corp. is offering DOS software that may well encapsulate all of fundamental atomic spectroscopy. This broad claim is not made by the company, but a list of capabilities of the software leads one to consider the possibility. . . The fact that a serious attempt has been made to provide precisely for the needs identified as necessary for atomic data base management in 1987 is noteworthy. . . While NIST has served as a clearinghouse for data for many years, Atomic Engineering has positioned itself to also serve as such a clearinghouse."-- Alexander Scheeline, School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois