Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve measurement accuracy of a spectrometer without using, for example, an expensive optical bandpass filter.SOLUTION: The spectrometer comprises: an optical bandpass filter part 300 having from a first wavelength range to an n-th wavelength range (n is an integer of 2 or more) being predetermined wavelength widths as spectral bands; a light receiving part 400 for receiving light from the optical bandpass filter part; a correction operating part 500 for performing a correction operation which corrects light receiving signals obtained based on output signals from the light receiving part; and a signal processing part 600 for performing a predetermined signal processing based on the light receiving signals after the correction by the correction operating part 500. The correction operating part 500 corrects the light receiving signals based on a change of the spectral distribution of the light receiving signals.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To emit light, whose wavelength is swept in a sine wave state with respect to time, by deflecting a light path in a spectroscope by the vibration of a tunin fork and dividing the luminous flux, which is guided into the spectroscope and has a spectral structure. CONSTITUTION:A diffraction grating 23 as a spectroscopic element, which receives reflected luminous flux from a collimator mirror 22 and divides the flux, is arranged in a light path of the luminous flux. The luminous flux, whose wavelength is scattered by said spectroscopic element, advences to a collector mirror 25. A wavelength modulator 29' using amirror utilizes a U shaped tuning fork 30 having two legs. A reflecting mirror 31 is vibrated by a driving mechanism at a frequency in the vicinity of the natural frequency of the tuning fork. The path of the liminous flux, which is introduced in the main body of the spectroscope, is deflected by the vibration of the reflecting mirror 31.
Abstract:
A device, and corresponding method, can include a pump light source configured to be modulated at a pump modulation and to irradiate a target specimen. The device can also include a probe light source arranged to generate a speckle pattern from the target specimen, as well as a sensor configured to detect changes in at least one of position and intensity of one or more speckle lobes of the speckle pattern having correlation with the pump modulation. The device and method can be used for non-contact monitoring and remote sensing of surfaces, gases, liquids, particles, and other target materials by analyzing speckle pattern changes as a function of pump light irradiation. Advantages can include much higher sensitivity than existing methods; the ability to use visible probe wavelengths for uncooled, low-cost visible detectors with high spatial resolution; and the ability to obtain target material properties without detecting infrared light.
Abstract:
An embodiment of the disclosure provides a system for determining information on one or more constituents in a medium. The system includes N light emitters L1 . . . LN, wherein each light emitter Lr provides an amplitude modulated (AM) light at modulation frequency fr into a flow path of the medium from one side of a containment vessel for the medium. The system further includes a photodetector, for receiving the AM light from each light emitter after it passes through the flow path of the medium, and converting the AM light to an electrical signal characterized by a summation of frequency components from each modulation frequency fr. The system further includes one or more measuring circuits providing information about a concentration of one or more constituents in the medium determined from log ratios of a pair of amplitudes of fy and fz frequency components in the electrical signal.
Abstract:
Optical methane detector for the detection of the methane content of a gas, comprising: a reference gas cell; a light source to illuminate said gas and said reference gas cell with visible or infrared radiation; a light detector to capture parts of said radiation reflected back from a solid surface; a control unit to control the light source to modulate the wavelength of said radiation; wherein the control unit performs an analysis of the signal of the light detector to calculate the transmittance of the gas and from this the methane concentration in the gas utilizing at least two of the harmonic spectra of the light detector signal corresponding to multiples of a modulation frequency of the wavelength; the control unit performs a first measurement using the signal of the light detector corresponding to the reference cell and calculates harmonic background functions comprising at least a second and third order harmonic function representing the behavior of the signal without influence of methane in the gas; the control unit performs a second measurement using the signal of the light detector corresponding to the gas and performs a curve fitting algorithm that fits precalculated harmonic functions representing the optical transmission spectrum of the gas with the methane concentration as a fitting parameter together with the harmonic background functions to the measured values, the precalculated harmonic functions comprising at least the second and third order harmonic function corresponding to multiples of a modulation frequency of the wavelength.