Abstract:
The invention relates to a spectral detector for measuring properties of light over portions of the electromagnetic spectrum including cholesteric liquid crystal material and switching means capable of varying the pitch of the helix of the cholesteric liquid crystal material, so that the position of the transmission wavelength band is adjusted in response to the switching means. The spectral detector may further include at least one light direction selecting structure for selecting light incident on the spectral detector having a certain angle of incidence. This invention also relates to a lighting system including the spectral detector of the invention.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a spectral detector including a photo detector array and cholesteric liquid crystal material for measuring properties of light over portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. By exposing the cholesteric liquid crystalmaterialfor different exposure intensities or exposure times of ultraviolet radiation at different positions on the cholesteric liquid crystal material in a controlled way, portions of the cholesteric liquid crystal material are obtained, each having, in general, its own optical transmission. This invention also relates to a spectral detector manufactured by the inventive method.
Abstract:
An optical measurement apparatus (100) comprises a light source (1) for generating an incident light beam (4), a first optical system (13, 9a, 9b, 9c) for directing said incident light beam from said light source to said microscope objective (25) along an incident beam path, a spectrometer (27) and a measurement detector (7) for measuring secondary light (5) emitted from said sample (23), a second optical system (14a, 14b, 17) for collecting secondary light (5) generated from said sample (23) and for directing said secondary light toward said spectrometer (27) along a return beam path. According to the invention, the apparatus comprises at least one out of a 1 st switching mirror (10) and a 2 nd switching mirror (15), said 1 st switching mirror (10) having a position where it is inserted in said incident light path for directing said incident light beam toward a first detector (6) for optical misalignment detection of said incident beam path and said 2 nd switching mirror (15) having a position where it is inserted in said incident light path for directing said incident light beam along said return beam path toward a second detector for detecting optical misalignment in said return beam path.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a device and a method for optical 3D measurement, wherein the device can be shifted between a first mode for optical 3D measurement using a chromatic confocal measurement method or the triangulation measurement method and a second mode for color measurement. In the first mode, a broadband illuminating beam is focused on a first plane and in the second mode the broadband illuminating beam is focused onto a second plane outside the first plane at a distance d from the surface of the measured object.
Abstract:
This invention concerns a device for measuring reflectometry characterization comprising 5 a source (10) which emits a beam of light, a detector (26), means for processing and controlling the light beam (19) so as to focus it on a reflective surface which is measured as a spot, which is receivable on a detector (26), 10 means for control and pick-up (30), a camera (29) and means for imaging the spot on the detector (26) and on the camera (29), in which the camera is connected to the control and pick-up means (30) in order to have 15 automatic focusing on the spot on the reflective surface to be measured and to automatically conjugate the reflective surface to be measured by the detector surface.
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:
A multi-spectrum, multi-channel imaging spectrometer includes two or more input slits or other input for each input channel. The input slits are vertically and horizontally displaced from each other. The vertical displacements cause spectra from the channels to be vertically displaced on a single image sensor on a stationary image plane. The horizontal displacements cause light beams from the input channels to strike a convex grating at different incidence angles and produce separate spectra having different spectral ranges. A retroflective spectrometer includes a convex grating that, by diffraction, disperses wavelengths of light at different angles and orders approximately back along an incident light beam. A single concave mirror reflects both the input channel and the dispersed spectrum. A prism, set of mirrors, beam splitters or other optical element(s) folds the input channel(s) of a spectrometer to enable the input(s) to be moved away from the plan of the image sensor.
Abstract:
An individualized modeling equation for predicting a patient's blood glucose values is generated as a function of non-invasive spectral scans of a body part and an analysis of blood samples from the patient, and is stored on a central computer. The central computer predicts a blood glucose value for the patient as a function of the individualized modeling equation and a non-invasive spectral scan generated by a remote spectral device. If the spectral scan falls within the range of the modeling equation, the predicted blood glucose level is output to the patient. If the spectral scan falls outside the range of the modeling equation, regeneration of the model is required, and the patient takes a number of noninvasive scans and an invasive blood glucose level determination. The computer regenerates the individualized modeling equation as a function of the set of spectral scans and corresponding blood glucose values.