Abstract:
An imaging device including an illumination module including at least one emitter for emitting at least one excitation beam, a scanning and injection module including an image guide, a proximal end and a distal end of which are linked by a plurality of optical fibers, and a scanning and injection optical system configured to alternately inject the at least one excitation beam into an optical fiber of the image guide from the proximal end of the image guide, and a detection module including at least one detector for detecting at least one luminous flux collected at the distal end of the image guide. At least one of the illumination module and the detection module is optically conjugated with the scanning and injection module by a conjugating optical fiber.
Abstract:
An imaging device includes an illumination module comprising at least one emitter for emitting at least one excitation beam; a scanning and injection module comprising an image guide, a proximal end and a distal end of which are linked by a plurality of optical fibers; a scanning and injection optical system configured to alternately inject the at least one excitation beam into an optical fiber of the image guide from the proximal end of the image guide; a detection module comprising a detector for detecting a luminous flux collected at the distal end of the image guide, wherein at least one of the illumination module and the detection module is optically conjugated with the scanning and injection module using a conjugating optical fiber.
Abstract:
An apparatus and devices for measuring fluorescence lifetimes of fluorescence sensors for one or more analytes, the apparatus comprising (c) one or more reference systems (3,6,7), said reference systems each comprising one or more reference light sources (3) and being adapted to receive one or more excitation signals (1a), to produce reference optical signals (6b) in response thereto, and to produce one or more electrical reference output signals (7b) in response to one or more excitation signals (1a); and (d) or more phase detectors (10), said phase detections being adapted to detect one or more delays of said one or more electrical output signals of said one or more fluorescence sensor systems and said one or more reference systems, and to produce one or more phase output signals; and a method of measuring concentration of one or more analytes using such apparatus and/or devices.
Abstract:
A low cost portable fiber optic fluorometer is packaged as a personal computer peripheral and is based on interchangeable modules. One embodiment of the fluorometer comprises an excitation source, a detector, a signal processor, frequency source, wavelength selector, and an optical interface. The optical interface is exclusively fiber optic-based, thereby simplifying optical alignment and reducing the cost of the fluorometer. In another embodiment, the excitation source is an inexpensive monochromatic excitation source. In this case, the monochromatic excitation source and the first wavelength selector are preferably removable and replaceable, so that the fluorometer is advantageously able to generate different excitation wavelengths and detect different emission wavelengths. A fluorescence measurement method comprises the steps of generating an excitation signal; transmitting the excitation signal to a system under study which, in response, generates an emission signal; and detecting both the excitation signal and the emission signal with the fluorometer, and then using the detected excitation signal as a reference signal to calibrate the fluorometer and to nullify distortion errors in the emission signal. The use of the excitation signal as a reference signal provides an advantageously simple way to calibrate the fluorometer and to nullify distortion errors in the emission signal. An alternative method allows the precise shapes of the emission signal and the excitation signal to be profiled. The fluorometry method and apparatus can both advantageously be used for performing both direct fluorescence lifetime measurements and for performing phase fluorometry.
Abstract:
The sensor system monitors solutes in a liquid stream by analyzing the amount of light absorbed in a liquid in a particular wavelength band. The sensor system is arranged for selectability of the type of fiber used for transmission and adjustability of the liquid gap length in the liquid so that individual installations can be arranged with optimum characteristics for sensing particular chemical species in solution by absorption spectroscopy.
Abstract:
A flow cell for a photometric device includes a module having a body with a distal face defining an annular channel. The body also defines an axial central passage and an axial flow channel. A second module has a body with a proximal face defining an annular channel. The second body also defines an axial flow channel in fluid communication with the first axial flow channel. A light guiding member is within the central passage for exposing a fluid in the flow channels of the modules. An assembly seals an interface between the distal and proximal faces such that the fluid does not leak from the flow channels. The assembly has a metal gasket between the distal and proximal faces, the metal gasket defining a flow path between the flow channels, a first sealing member in the first annular channel and a second sealing member in the second annular channel.
Abstract:
A low cost portable fiber optic fluorometer (20) is packaged as a personal computer peripheral and is based on interchangeable modules. One embodiment of the fluorometer includes an excitation source (25), a detector (26), a signal processor, a frequency source (23), a wavelength selector (24), and an optical interface (21, 22). The optical interface is exclusively fiber optic-based, simplifying optical alignment and reducing the cost of the fluorometer. The excitation source may be an inexpensive monochromatic excitation source. In this case, the monochromatic excitation source and the wavelength selector (24) are preferably removable and replaceable, so that the fluorometer is advantageously able to generate different excitation wavelengths and detect different emission wavelengths. The fluorometry apparatus can advantageously be used for performing both direct fluorescence lifetime measurements and for performing phase fluorometry.
Abstract:
A modular device for remote chemical material analysis with a basic function unit which is formed with a transport module (2), which is partly equipped with a mobile frame construction which is set up with at least a power supply (21) of the laser, a detection system (22), designed for plasma radiation dispersion according to the wavelength and its record, a control and evaluation block (23) in the form of PC and a control electronic block (24) and partly is connected with a laser module (4) which contains a laser head (41), which serves as a source of laser pulses, where the essence of the invention is that the laser module (4) is equipped with a laser beam router (42) of optional routing of laser pulses either into a stand-off module (6) when analyzed with a "Stand-Off LIBS" method or into a fiber module (8) when analyzed with a "Remote LIBS" method.
Abstract:
La présente invention concerne un dispositif d'imagerie, comprenant: un module d'illumination (1) comprenant des moyens pour émettre au moins un faisceau d'excitation; un module de balayage et d'injection (2) comprenant un guide d'image (3) dont deux extrémités respectivement proximale (3a) et distale (3b) sont reliées par une pluralité de fibres optiques, et des moyens (6) de balayage et d'injection agencés pour injecter l'au moins un faisceau d'excitation tour à tour dans une fibre du guide d'image (3) et du côté proximal (3a) du guide; un module de détection (4) comprenant des moyens pour détecter un flux lumineux (14) collecté à l'extrémité distale (3b) du guide. Au moins un parmi le module d'illumination (1) et le module de détection (4) est conjugué optiquement au module de balayage et d'injection (2) par une fibre optique de conjugaison (5, 7). L'utilisation de fibres de conjugaison (5, 7) permet d'améliorer la maintenance, la réparation et la mise à jour du dispositif, et peut en outre permettre de réaliser un filtrage modal du faisceau d'excitation et d'assurer la confocalité du dispositif.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an optical flow cell for a measuring device, having an input light guide with a light exit surface, an output light guide with a light entrance surface, said input light guide and output light guide being integrated with a holder to form an optical flow cell, and wherein the holder extends along a first axis and has a through hole for receiving a flow of a sample fluid, said through hole being transversal to said first axis, and the input light guide and output light guide further are arranged in said holder so that the light exit surface and the light entrance surface extend into said through hole and are arranged to be in optical alignment with each other and at a first distance from each other. The invention also relates to a measuring device having at least one optical flow cell.