Abstract:
This invention comprises a novel apparatus for recording a holographic groove pattern on a diffraction grating blank (G). The recording apparatus is configured using newly developed groups of analytical equations. The invention further comprises the novel holographic diffraction grating (G) made with the inventive recording apparatus. The invention additionally comprises monochromators and spectrometers equipped with the inventive holographic diffraction grating (PG). Further, the invention comprises a monochromator configured to reduce aberrations using a newly developed group of analytical equations. Additionally, the invention comprises a method to reduce aberrations in monochromators and spectrometers using newly developed groups of analytical equations.
Abstract:
The application of one or more multifunctional holographic optical elements (HOE's) (40, 16) to a photometric apparatus, and a spectrophotometer in particular, is disclosed. Fabrication methods for HOE's especially useful in the foregoing application result in holograms which perform several classical optical (i. e., light gathering and steering) functions. The HOE's so fabricated are useful in a detector mode (16) (i.e., to process light from an illuminated sample for analysis of some portion of its spectrum); in a source mode (40) (i.e., processing light from a source (51) to a focus on a sample); and a combination of source and detector modes.
Abstract:
A spectrometer 1A includes spectroscopic units 2A, 2B, and 2C. A light passing part 21A, a reflection part 11A, a common reflection part 12, a dispersive part 40A, and a light detection part 22A included in the spectroscopic unit 2A are arranged along a reference line RL1 when viewed in a Z-axis direction. A light passing part 21B, a reflection part 11B, the common reflection part 12, a dispersive part 40B, and a light detection part 22B included in the spectroscopic unit 2B are arranged along a reference line RL2 when viewed in the Z-axis direction. A light passing part 21C, a reflection part 11C, the common reflection part 12, a dispersive part 40C, and a light detection part 22C included in the spectroscopic unit 2C are arranged along a reference line RL3 when viewed in the Z-axis direction. The reference line RL1, the reference line RL2, and the reference line RL3 intersect with one another.
Abstract:
A device for use with a smart phone or tablet, the device comprising: a measurement device including a light source comprising a plurality of light emitting diodes for measuring one or more physiological parameters, the measurement device configured to generate an input optical beam with one or more optical wavelengths, wherein at least a portion of the one or more optical wavelengths is a near-infrared wavelength between 500 nanometres and 2500 nanometres; the measurement device comprising one or more lenses configured to receive and to deliver a portion of the input optical beam to a sample, wherein the sample reflects at least a portion of the input optical beam delivered to the sample; the measurement device further comprising a receiver to receive at least a portion of the input optical beam reflected from the sample; the light source configured to increase a signal-to-noise ratio of the input optical beam reflected from the sample, wherein the increased signal-to-noise ratio results from an increase to the light intensity from at least one of the plurality of light emitting diodes and from modulation of at least one of the plurality of light emitting diodes; and the measurement device configured to generate an output signal; the device configured to communicate with the smart phone or tablet, the smart phone or tablet comprising a wireless receiver, a wireless transmitter, a display, a voice input module, a speaker, and a touch screen, the smart phone or tablet configured to receive and to process at least a portion of the output signal, wherein the smart phone or tablet is configured to store and display the processed output signal, wherein at least a portion of the processed output signal is configured to be transmitted over a wireless transmission link.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a Dyson-type imaging spectrometer that includes an input port (1) extending in a direction X, an output port, a diffraction array (4) including a set of streaks on a concave substrate, an optical system including a lens (2), said lens having a first planar surface (8) and a second convex surface (3), the convex surface of the lens and the concave surface of the diffraction array being concentric, wherein said optical system is capable of receiving a light beam from an input port and of directing the same towards the diffraction array, and of receiving a beam diffracted by the diffraction array and of forming a spectral image of said diffracted beam in a plane (7) of the output port, wherein said spectral image can be spatially resolved in an extension direction X’ of the image of the input port. According to the invention, the diffraction array (4) includes a set of nonparallel and non-equidistant streaks and/or the substrate of the diffraction array is nonspherical so as to form an image of the input port in the output plane having an improved image quality and very small distortions.
Abstract:
A spectrometer (20) has a source of illumination radiation (21) having a plurality of spectral wavelengths, a bandpass filter (14), a dispersive beamsplitter (28), an illumination radiation rejection filter (34), and a spectrograph (32) each tunable in correspondences to a selected one of the plurality of spectral wavelengths of the source of illumination radiation. Any one of the tunable elements can comprise a holographic volume dispersion distraction grating and a mirror, both having fixed orientation displacement with respect to each other and being rotable for tuning around an avis corresponding to the interaction of the two planes coincident with the surfaces of said mirror and said grating.
Abstract:
An optical apparatus in which multiplexed holograms are used to achieve wavelength selectivity and polarization manipulation is used to facilitate near-normal incidence of light on the holograms. The polarization manipulation allows light reflected from the holograms to be separated from the light incident on the holograms. In one application, the apparatus can be used to extract spectral lines of an analyte from radiation scattered from a sample.
Abstract:
A volume diffraction grating having a substrate and an optically active layer has a structure formed in the optically active layer. The structure is operational to diffract optical signals in two selected spectral bands. The grating may be formed in a high dispersion embodiment suitable for separating individual signals from composite signals of both spectral bands. Alternatively, the grating may be formed in a low dispersion version which can separate the composite signals from each other. In another embodiment, a second structure is formed in the optically active layer. Each of the structures is configured to be operational in one of the spectral bands, allowing signals in each band to be diffracted independently of one another. In another embodiment, the structure (s) may have a curved profile allowing the diffracted beams to be shaped or focused without the need for external lenses.
Abstract:
The invention concerns an optical component (1), which comprises preferably two prisms (2, 3) and an intermediate transmission grating (4). The radiation is directed by means of the prisms (2, 3) and the radiation is dispersed or collated by means of a grating (4) with big dispersion to direct the wished radiation wavelengths into wished directions.