Abstract:
An optical transmission spectrometer for transmission measurements of absorbing and scattering samples includes light sources mounted parallel to each other in a holder. The beams of light eminating from the light sources are directed through a beam-combiner. The beam-combiner includes a first refractive surface at an angle of incidence of 45°. The first refractive surface refracts light toward a common axis. The beam-combiner includes a second refractive surface parallel to the first refractive surface for refracting the beam of light along a common axis parallel to the original direction of the beam of light. The beam-combiner can include additional refractive surfaces for other beams of light to combine the beams of light into a primary beam. The includes a collimating tube extending along the common axis for baffling stray light and directing the primary beam through a sample. A second collimating tube is provided on the side of the sample opposite the first collimating tube for baffling stray light passing through the sample. The second collimating tube directs the primary beam to a detector package mounted in a holder, where the detector viewing area of the sample is limited to that of the primary beam.
Abstract:
A portable colorimeter for characterizing the optical properties of a colored surface and in particular a colored surface containing metallic or pearlescent particles, which employs three multiangular spectrophotometric measurements to derive color constants for the surface. The colorimeter is a compact integrated unit housing irradiation, detection, control, analysis and display means and employs three illumination angles, preferably -30°, O°, and 65°, and one detection angle, preferably 45°, all measured from the sample normal. The method includes determining the tristimulus values of the color of the sample surface from low resolution spectral reflectance data preferably using twelve detector elements.
Abstract:
L'invention permet de déterminer la couleur à donner en particulier à une prothèse dentaire à partir de la mesure de la couleur des dents adjacentes dans la bouche du patient. Un instrument (44) à fibre optique permet de capter la lumière réfléchie par une dent (50) et de la transmettre à l'entrée d'un spectrocolorimètre (12, 14) associé à un microprocesseur (10), pour déterminer la réflectance spectrale diffuse de la dent et calculer les composantes trichromatiques de ses couleurs apparentes pour divers types d'éclairage. L'invention s'applique notamment à la détermination des couleurs des prothèses dentaires.
Abstract:
To provide sufficient sensitivity, spectral resolution and speed of measurement for field environmental measurements in a portable spectroradiometer, a silicon photodiode receives light: (1) having a bandwidth in the range of between 2 and 15 nm (nanometers) from a pivotable concave holographic diffraction grating within the wavelength range of between 250 and 1150 nm at a scanning rate in the range of 20 to 100 nm per second; (2) having stray light of high intensity and undesired frequencies and the shorter wavelength harmonics of the selected frequency range blocked by filters; and (3) having flux of a least 10 microwatts per square meter of diffuser plate for each nanometer of bandwidth. Automatic electrical zeroing is obtained by blocking all light once at the beginning of each scan, obtaining an electrical drift-related signal and using the drift signal to ad- just the measured signal during the scan. Several different sensing interfaces can be used, including a quartz, light fiber probe having at least a 50% packing density and a cone angle of at least 24 degrees. The data and the programming storage is at least 30K bytes but the instrument uses no more than two watts of power when the instrument is not scanning.