Abstract:
The invention relates to a low-pressure mercury discharge lamp having emission maxima in three spectral regions, provided with a gastight, radiation-transmitting discharge vessel with a gas filling comprising mercury and rare gas and provided with a luminescent layer which comprises at least a first luminescent material with an emission maximum in the 590-630 nm region and a second luminescent material with an emission maximum in the 520-565 nm region. According to the invention, the first luminescent material contains a compound defined by the formula: M1xM2(1-x-y)BO3:Eu y in which M1 belongs to the group formed by Sc, In and Lu and M2 belongs to the group formed by Sc, Y, La, Gd, Ga, In and Lu, in which M1 differs from M2, in which x>/=0 and 0,01
Abstract:
A low-pressure mercury discharge lamp according to the invention is provided with a discharge vessel (1) which encloses a discharge space (2) in a gastight manner and in which a filling comprising mercury is accommodated. The lamp is in addition provided with means (3a, 3b) for maintaining an electric discharge in the discharge space. The discharge vessel is provided with a luminescent layer (5). The lamp generates light during operation with a spectrum which is substantially composed of radiation in a first wavelength region from 590 to 630 nm, in a second wavelength region from 520 to 565 nm, and in a third wavelength region from 430 to 490 nm. The radiation in a wavelength interval from 590 to 600 nm accounts for at least 25 % of the power of the radiation in the entire first wavelength region. As a result, the lamp is an attractive proposition for applications where a mediocre color rendering can suffice.
Abstract:
The application describes a method and devices for manufacturing a broadband cholesteric polarizer having a well-defined bandwidth and edge position. To this end, a liquid-crystalline cholesterically ordered layer comprising reactive chiral monomers and reactive nematogenic monomers having a different reactivity is polymerized by exposure to radiation. The invention is characterized in that the intensity of the radiation is increased substantially, preferably by a factor of 10 or more, when a desired edge position of the band is reached. As a result, the bandwidth and egde position of the reflection band reached at that moment are frozen as it were. A monochromatic sensor can be used to determine whether said edge position has been reached, the wavelength used by the sensor corresponding to the wavelength of the desired edge position of the band. Broadband, cholesteric polarizers having a well-defined bandwidth and edge position can very advantageously be used in a display.
Abstract:
A device for imaging a turbid medium, for example a breast of a female, comprising a holder for comprising the turbid medium, a light source, a photodetector and a processing unit for deriving the image from the intensities measured is adapted to comprise besides the turbid medium also an adaptation medium having substantial identical optical parameters as the optical parameters of the turbid medium. In this way artefacts in the reconstructed image due to the boundary effect between the turbid medium and the holder can be reduced. When a liquid is used as an adaptation medium a perfect match between the holder and the shape of the turbid medium can be obtained. Further, according to the invention also intensity differences in the image due to different path lengths between light source and photodetector could be equalized.
Abstract:
An oscillator provided with an amplitude controller (AMPREG1) which is coupled by an input (G1) to an amplitude reference terminal (AMPREF1). The amplitude of the oscillator signal at the output terminal (KU) can be adjusted through coupling of a voltage-generating means to the amplitude reference terminal (AMPREF1).
Abstract:
An inductorless voltage biasing circuit is provided for an AC-coupled amplifier (10) of the type having a signal input terminal (VIN) and a coupling capacitor (12) for coupling the input terminal (VIN) to a control terminal (16) of the AC-coupled amplifier (10). The voltage biasing circuit includes a voltage source (VB) coupled to the control terminal (16), with the voltage biasing circuit including a differential-input amplifier (18) having a noninverting input coupled to the voltage source (VB), an inverting input, an output terminal (20) and a differential voltage gain characteristic that decreases as a function of frequency. A resistor (22) is coupled between the inverting input and the output terminal (20), and the control terminal (16) of the AC-coupled amplifier is coupled to the inverting input of the differential-input amplifier (18). In this manner, a low-impedance DC-voltage biasing source is provided for an AC-coupled amplifier without using an inductor.
Abstract:
A computer tomography device is provided with a reconstruction unit (1) for deriving brightness values of an image from density values. An image processing system (2) for deriving corrected brightness values from the brightness values of the image is arranged to calculate the variation of brightness values of the image in the radial direction and in the tangential direction. The image processing system is also arranged to calculate the deviation between the variation in the radial direction and the variation in the tangential direction and to derive corrected brightness values from brightness values of the image and said deviation.
Abstract:
A multichannel information system includes a plurality of input/output devices coupled to a plurality of array controllers through a rotating commutator. Each array controller is coupled to and controls a plurality of disk groups operating as memory arrays. Each input/output device communicates data to and from the array controllers in a plurality of data channels. A bandwidth regulation system is operative within each array controller to authorize channel bandwidths for each application run in the system and to prevent transitory bandwidth demands within any channel from interfering with previously authorized channel bandwidths.
Abstract:
A recording apparatus and method for recording information in a multitrack record carrier with longitudinal tracks, where the total length of the record carrier has been divided into a plurality of sub portions, wherein the information has been recorded in a serpentine-like way.