Abstract:
The present invention provides a programmable filter for use as a standard in correlation spectrometers. Also provided is the use of the programmable standard in a process for determining the concentration of an optically absorbing compound. Also provided is a method and apparatus for noninvasively determining the concentration of an optically absorbing biological sample which incorporates the programmable standard of the invention. In one embodiment the programmable standard (20) contains a dispersive element (106a) and a transmissive spatial light modulator (108). Because the position of each light beam correlates to its wavelength, spatial filter (108) controllably and selectively attenuates desired wavelengths of the input beam.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a device (2) and to a method for characterizing an ultrashort laser pulse. Furthermore, the invention relates to use of a self-contained optical assembly in a device (2) for characterizing an ultrashort laser pulse. The device (2) comprises an imaging optical element (4) configured to image the incident laser pulse (6) in a direction of a straight line (L). A first optical element (10) is configured to apply predetermined varying group delay dispersion on the line focused laser pulse. A non-linear optical element (14) is configured to generate a second harmonic laser pulse (30). A non-linear integral optical member may be realized by placing a thin BBO non-linear crystal (14) between two BK-7 glass wedges (10,12) resulting in a cuboid. An optical grating (22) generates a diffraction of the second harmonic laser pulse, which is imaged (20) on a flat sensor (24). A processing unit (36) determines a best fit for the captured image thereby calculating a frequency spectrum and a spectral phase of the laser pulse.
Abstract:
Technologies are described for providing optical analysis systems using an integrated computational element that has a surface patterned to selectively reflect or transmit different wavelengths by differing amounts across a spectrum of wavelengths. In one aspect, a measurement tool contains an optical element including a layer of material patterned so that the optical element selectively transmits or reflects, during operation of the measurement tool, light in at least a portion of a wavelength range by differing amounts, the differing amounts being related to a property of a sample. The wavelength range can include wavelengths in a range from about 0.2µm to about 100µm. Additionally, the sample can include wellbore fluids and the property of the sample is a property of the wellbore fluids.
Abstract:
A light wavelength measurement method of measuring a wavelength of target light includes: receiving target light on a second dispersion device that disperses the target light into a plurality of second beams which reach a plurality of positions corresponding to the wavelength of the target light (S106, S202); and measuring the wavelength of the target light, by using the plurality of the second beams as a vernier scale for measuring the wavelength of the target light within a wavelength range specified by a main scale (S108, S204).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a spectroscopy array having a first and a second optical ring resonator (1, 3), each provided with a material having an intensity-dependent refraction index. The spectroscopy array further comprises at least one waveguide (2, 4, 7, 8), which is guided along the optical ring resonator at a distance such that the light of a continuous beam laser (2b, 4b, 20) guided in the waveguide (2, 4, 7) can be coupled into the optical ring resonator (1, 3), and a frequency comb generated from the light of the continuous beam laser in the optical ring resonator can be coupled out of the waveguide (2, 4, 8). The optical ring resonators (1, 3) and the at least one waveguide (2, 4, 7, 8) are provided on a shared substrate (9).
Abstract:
The invention features a method of assaying for the interaction of a probe and an unknown target, said method including a) exciting a sample with radiation, the sample including at least one unknown target, at least one probe, and at least one fluorescent tag, b) measuring the fluorescence from a subvolume of the sample, and c) analyzing the fluctuations of the fluorescence.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method of determining the autocorrelation function g(τ) of an optical signal. The inventive method comprises the following steps consisting in: determining the instants (ti) at which the photons appear; for a pre-determined set of pulses (w), calculating function s(w) = Si e-jwti, wherein e-jwti = coswti + sinwti, the summation being performed on all of the pulses received; determining the square S(w) of the modulus of function s(w); and calculating the Fourier transform g(τ) of the power spectrum S(w) for a pre-determined set of temporal variation values.
Abstract:
The invention features a method of assaying for the interaction of a probe and an unknown target, said method including a) exciting a sample with radiation, the sample including at least one unknown target, at least one probe, and at least one fluorescent tag, b) measuring the fluorescence from a subvolume of the sample, and c) analyzing the fluctuations of the fluorescence.