Abstract:
A spectro-imager or spectrophotometer type optoelectronic camera comprising an optical system, a set of light-sensitive CCD elements (3) at the focus of said optical system, a clear protective window made, for example, of glass and placed in front of the sensitive side (4) of said set of light-sensitive elements (3), and a spectral scatterer for spectrally analysing the scene before said camera. Said sensitive side (4) of the set of light-sensitive elements (3), facing said protective window, is provided with a single- or multi-layer anti-reflective coating (9) with a thickness (e) that is continuously variable depending on the wavelength of the light picked up by said sensitive side in a direction parallel to the scattering axis of said scatterer (A).
Abstract:
This integrated device for instantly identifying, qualitatively and quantitatively, a physico-chemical entity or a plurality of such entities contained in or on a sample, and liable to return one or more emission or absorption or reflectance spectra when excited by an electromagnetic wave, comprises, within a shielded housing (1): a polychromator (5) to which the emission, absorption or reflectance spectrum or spectra from the analysed sample are directed; a detection unit (6) for said signals, positioned on the optical path of the signals emitted by the polychromator (5); a conversion circuit (6) coupled to said polychromator (5), a central processing unit (7) integrating, in an associated memory, a plurality of standard spectra representative of known and predetermined entities, for analysing the digital spectrum or spectra thus obtained, for comparing, following a decorrelation process, the spectrum or spectra with the spectra stored in said memory, and for deducting, from this comparison, the nature and concentration of the predetermined physico-chemical entity or entities in or on the sample.
Abstract:
A spectrometer comprises a tunable interferometer for producing a monochromatic continuous image at an image plane and including two mirrors (48) having substantially parallel surfaces and an adjustable spacing therebetween, a radiation detector (54) located at the image plane for recording the image, a filter arrangement (56) for allowing at least one predetermined range of wavelengths to pass to the detector, and a lens (50) arrangement for collecting radiation and limiting radiation incident on the interferometer to an angle which is substantially perpendicular to the substantially parallel surfaces of the two mirrors.
Abstract:
The spectrometer comprises a radiation source (1) whose radiation is focused on an entrance slit (5) of an echelle monochromator (6, 7, 8, 9, 10). A fibre optic bundle (52) has one end (51) located above a slot on the output plate (10) of the echelle monochromator and its other end (53) located adjacent an array detector (54). The fibre optic bundle (52) has a card (59) attached to it which specifies the respective positions of the ends of each fibre within the bundle. A card reader (58) reads this information and passes it to a memory (61). A microprocessor (57) is used to relate the outputs of a given detector element to a given wavelength of radiation using the information read from the card (59).
Abstract:
The application of one or more multifunctional holographic optical elements (HOE's) (40, 16) to a photometric apparatus, and a spectrophotometer in particular, is disclosed. Fabrication methods for HOE's especially useful in the foregoing application result in holograms which perform several classical optical (i. e., light gathering and steering) functions. The HOE's so fabricated are useful in a detector mode (16) (i.e., to process light from an illuminated sample for analysis of some portion of its spectrum); in a source mode (40) (i.e., processing light from a source (51) to a focus on a sample); and a combination of source and detector modes.
Abstract:
A multi-sample spectrometer which finds particular application in such applications as on-line process control and monitoring, employs a Hadamard encoding scheme and comprises a source of radiation, primary encoding means to encode radiation from said source, sample receiving means to position the samples in the radiation path, secondary encoding means to modulate the intensity of radiation directed to individual samples and a detector for radiation received from the samples.
Abstract:
A video pixel spectrometer system employs an image aquisition device (12) and a spectrometer (14) to provide a video display of the spectral characteristics of an image sector for a series of discrete positions of the image sector. The output from the spectrometer (14) is converted to digital data and processed for displaying various video displays (D1, D2, D3, D4 and D5) of the spectral characteristics. Cameras (24, 26 and 28) are also employed to acquire images for processing of various physical features and to aid in positioning the input image.