Abstract:
In order to remedy the compensation problem of the background absorption in absorption spectroscopy or atomic fluorescent spectroscopy, the frequency of a measurement light beam sent through a test chamber is modulated by using the Doppler effect. To this effect, devices arranged on the ray path of the light beam (12) generate a modification ratio of the optical path travelled by the light beam (12) between two points of said ray path. Several construction solutions are possible to obtain this effect. The optical path may be periodically modified by moving mirrors, or it is possible to arrange on the ray path a crystal (132) of which the refraction index may be periodically modified by applying a voltage to magneto resistors (134 and 146).
Abstract:
The selectivity, that is to say the ratio between the analyte-proportional signal and the foreign body-proportional signal is an essential factor in spectrometric measurements. When a narrow spectral band of the spectral domain is filtered by means of filter arrangements or the like and when supplying a detector of which the output signal is displayed, a sensitive improvement of the selectivity is obtained. The filter arrangement is periodically offset with respect to the spectral domain to be analyzed so that the spectral band passing through the filter arrangement is periodically offset through the spectral domain to be analyzed and the output signal from the detector is displayed through a lock-in amplifier of which the phase reference signal is proportional to the displacement.