Abstract:
Optical apparatus for forming correlation spectrometers and optical processors. The optical apparatus comprises one or more diffractive optical elements formed on a substrate for receiving light from a source and processing the incident light. The optical apparatus includes an addressing element for alternately addressing each diffractive optical element thereof to produce for one unit of time a first correlation with the incident light, and to produce for a different unit of time a second correlation with the incident light that is different from the first correlation. In preferred embodiments of the invention, the optical apparatus is in the form of a correlation spectrometer; and in other embodiments, the apparatus is in the form of an optical processor. In some embodiments, the optical apparatus comprises a plurality of diffractive optical elements on a common substrate for forming first and second gratings that alternately intercept the incident light for different units of time. In other embodiments, the optical apparatus includes an electrically-programmable diffraction grating that may be alternately switched between a plurality of grating states thereof for processing the incident light. The optical apparatus may be formed, at least in part, by a micromachining process.
Abstract:
An interferometric spectrum analyzer employs a pair of Bragg cells arranged in an optically cascaded configuration such that both the signal beam and the reference beam travel along a common optical path. The beam-modifying properties of the Bragg cells are such that within a prescribed bandwidth of operation, the deflection properties of the respective cells are frequency complementary, namely different frequencies applied to the respective cells deflect the beam passing therethrough along the same optical path, to produce a beat frequency at the Fourier transform plane. In accordance with a first embodiment, complementary deflection action is achieved by using Bragg cells having respectively different acoustic velocites. In a second embodiment, each Bragg cell has the same acoustic velocity. The deflection/frequency complementary effect is obtained by the use of a birefringent material prism interposed between the Bragg cells, which produces angular deviation that depends upon the polarization and the direction of propagation of light passing through the prism.
Abstract:
The correlational gas analyzer comprises a light source passed through the gas under study, which features a quasiperiodic pattern of the specified spectral band, and an optical system with sequentially positioned along the optical path condensor, input slit iris, dispersing means to decomposed the specified spectral band of the gas under study, and rotatably mounted output slit iris configures as a disc with a plurality of slits, uniformly distributed along its circumference and equidistant from the disc center. The spacing between the centers of adjacent slits is approximately equal to the scan length of the specified spectral band of the gas under study. The output slit iris scans the specified spectral band of the gas under study across a photoreceiver, the output signal whereof drives two electric signal amplifiers. One of the amplifiers is designed as a tuned amplifier, with the resonant frequency thereof defined by a preset relation between the disc rotation speed, the number of maxima or minima in the specified spectral band, and the number of slits in the disc.
Abstract:
A correlational gas analyzer, comprising a light source with the light beam passed through the gas under study with a quasiperiodic pattern of the spectral band, and an optical system with sequentially positioned along the light beam condensor, input slit iris, beam dispering element and rotatably mounted output slit iris configured as a disc with a slit shaped as an Archimedes spiral. The Archimedes spiral center is coincident with the disc center and its pitch is approximately equal to the scan length of the specified spectral band of the gas under study. The output slit iris scans the specified spectral band of the gas under study across a photoreceiver, the outputs whereof drive the inputs of a first and second electric signal amplifier, with the outputs thereof connected to connected in series corrector unit and recorder. The first amplifier is a tuned amplifier with resonant frequency defined by the speed of disc rotation and by the number of maxima or minima in the specified spectral band of the gas under study.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an optical instrument for measuring concentrations of polluting gases on long and short geometric paths. The apparatus comprises a telescope for focussing a ray of light into a spectrometer, a comparison cell containing a known concentration of a polluting gas, control means and an electronic apparatus adapted to determine the concentration of the polluting gas in the analytical sample.
Abstract:
For detecting specific gases in an automobile exhaust selected lines of the exhaust gas absorption spectrum and reference bands of the spectrum close to the lines are chopped by a mask at the spectral plane so that the light flux from the lines and bands are transmitted at different times. The flux of the lines and bands are also encoded by the chopping mask or a successive encoding mask and applied to a single photodetector which produces a series of electrical values representing the flux of the selected spectral lines.
Abstract:
A device images radiation from a scene. A detector is sensitive to the radiation in a first wavelength band. A lens forms an image of the scene on the detector. A filtering arrangement includes two sets of radiation absorbing molecules. A control unit switches the filtering arrangement between two states, in the first state, all of the radiation in the first wavelength band is transmitted to the detector, in the second state, the radiation in a second wavelength band within the first wavelength band is absorbed by the radiation absorbing molecules. The control unit synchronizes the switching of the filtering arrangement with the detector. Each pixel of the image formed on the detector includes two signals. The first signal includes information from the scene radiation in the first wavelength band. The second signal excludes information from the scene radiation absorbed by the filtering arrangement in the second wavelength band.
Abstract:
An optical analysis system and process are disclosed. The optical analysis system includes one or more optical filter mechanisms disposed to receive light from a light source and a detector mechanism configured for operative communication with the one or more optical filter mechanisms, the operative communication permitting measurement of properties of filtered light, filtered by the one or more optical filter mechanisms followed by optical filtering by the mosaic optical filter mechanism from the light received. The one or more optical filter mechanisms are configured so that the magnitude of the properties measured by the detector mechanism is proportional to information carried by the filtered light. The process uses the optical analysis system.
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:
Die Erfindung betrifft eine Spektroskopieanordnung mit einem ersten und einem zweiten optischen Ringresonator (1, 3), die jeweils ein Material mit einem intensitätsabhängigen Brechungsindex aufweisen, ferner mit mindestens einem Wellenleiter (2, 4, 7, 8), der in einem solchen Abstand am optischen Ringresonator entlang geführt ist, dass in dem Wellenleiter (2, 4, 7) geführtes Licht eines Dauerstrichlasers (2b, 4b, 20) in den optischen Ringresonator (1, 3) einkoppelbar ist und ein aus dem Licht des Dauerstrichlasers im optischen Ringrsonator erzeugter Frequenzkamm in den Wellenleiter (2, 4, 8) auskoppelbar ist. Die optischen Ringresonatoren (1, 3) und der mindestens eine Wellenleiter (2, 4, 7, 8) sind auf einem gemeinsamen Substrat (9) vorgesehen..