Abstract:
An improvement to a dual-modulation line-locking device for wavelength modulation spectroscopy employing a lowpass filter to generate a nonnormalized error signal and a bandpass filter and RMS-to-DC converter to generate a centering signal. When the error signal is approximately zero and the centering signal is large, the wavelength is coincident with the center of the absorption feature of the sample.
Abstract:
An inductively coupled plasma spectrometer including shielding/sampling means (1) located between a plasma torch (3) and an optical system (4) of the spectrometer, wherein said shielding/sampling (1) means is associated with an enclosure (9) for the plasma torch such that a relatively high independance path (10, 11) is established for limiting flow of electrical current between said shielding/sampling means (1) and said enclosure (9).
Abstract:
This invention concerns a spectroscopic ellipsometer modulated at a frequency (.omega..sub.m) intended for taking measurements of a sample (3). The spectroscopic ellipsometer is phase modulated, the sample being excited by external means (16) producing periodic, alternating excitation at a frequency (.OMEGA..sub.e). The measurement contains the ellipsometric parameter values (.psi., .DELTA.) of the sample, respectively in the presence of (.psi..sub.1, .DELTA..sub.1) and in the absence of (.psi..sub.2, .DELTA..sub.2) excitation of the sample, as a function of excitation frequency (.OMEGA..sub.e).
Abstract:
Modulated light from a light source is incident on the surface of a scattering medium, and light passing through this scattering medium is externally detected. Components having a plurality of angular frequencies .omega..sub.1 and .omega..sub.2 corresponding to photon density waves propagating in the scattering medium are extracted from this detection signal. The extracted signals corresponding to these waves are compared with a signal of original modulated light to be incident on the scattering medium to detect a quantitatively measurable predetermined parameter such as a phase difference at a detection point for each angular frequency. The detected predetermined parameters have a predetermined relationship with absorptive and scattering constituents of the scattering medium. A pair of predetermined parameters are appropriately arithmetically calculated to eliminate the scattering coefficient, so that only the absorption coefficient can be independently calculated. Various pieces of information (including the linear integration value of the absorption coefficient in the scattering medium, the concentration of the specific material in the scattering medium, and the like) associated with absorption and the like in the scattering medium can be obtained in accordance with the calculated absorption coefficient.
Abstract:
Optical long-path gas monitoring apparatus (2) comprising means (4) for providing a radiation beam, a modulator (10) for modulating the wavelength of the radiation beam such as to produce amplitude modulation of the beam in the presence of the gas being monitored, a radiation detector (12) for conversion of the radiation beam into an electrical signal, and a signal processor (PSD 1,PSD 2) for demodulating the electrical signal to provide a signal dependent upon the gas.
Abstract:
Radiation in the near infrared over a limited range of wavelengths about 1660 nanometers is projected on a portion of the body, for example, the ear, of the patient. The resulting radiation emitted by the portion, either scattered from the portion or transmitted after absorption and scattered by the portion, is processed to derive an expression of the resulting radiation as a function of the wavelength. The second derivative of this function over a very narrow range of this function between 1640 and 1670 nanometers is expanded and the glucose concentration is determined from the magnitude, or intensity, of the scattered or transmitted radiation at the maximum or minimum point of this derivative apparatus for non-invasive determination of glucose concentration in the patient. Radiation in the near infrared is transmitted through a first fiber-optic radiation conductor to the outer surface of a portion of the patient's body, penetrating into the portion. A second fiber-optic conductor transmits the resulting radiation emitted from the portion to data processing means which produces the desired second derivative as a function of the wavelength of the incident radiation. The processor includes a spectrum analyzer which produces a spectrum of the resulting radiation.
Abstract:
Light to be measured is input to a diffraction grating after is has been oscillated by a wavelength modulation device with a constant frequency F. The light is incident to the diffraction grating at an angle of incidence, .theta., and is oscillated with a frequency F with a center angle of incidence, .theta..sub.0, as a center. An output spectrum of said diffraction grating is received by a photoelectric converter. An electric signal from the photoelectric converter is oscillated with a frequency F over a wavelength range of .lambda..sub.0 .+-..DELTA..lambda. where .lambda..sub.0 is a center wavelength measured at the center angle of incidence .theta..sub.0. The oscillated spectrum signal is synchronously detected, by a synchronous detector, with a frequency 2F through a high-pass filter, obtaining a variation spectrum at the measured center wavelength .lambda..sub.0. The output electric signal of the photoelectric converter passes through a DC amplifier to a sampling circuit where it is sampled with the frequency F or 2F. In this way it is possible to obtain a full intensity of a spectrum at the center wavelength .lambda..sub.0. The driving of a wavelength scanning mechanism causes a variation in the incident angle .theta..sub.0 of the light to the diffraction grating and thus a variation in the center wavelength .lambda..sub.0 measured.
Abstract:
A spectroscopic technique in which the sample under investigation is probed with a generally monochromatic beam of light which has been modulated at two distinct modulation frequencies. The double modulation produces a plurality of sidebands, and the two modulation frequencies are related to one another such that a selection of sidebands falls into two groups of closely spaced component sidebands. A first group is disposed in frequency at the spectral feature of interest and serves to probe the spectral feature. The other group is disposed in frequency remote from the feature and serves as a reference group. Within each group the component sidebands are offset from one another by a characteristic offset frequency, which can be considerably less than the width of the spectral feature under investigation. After interaction with the sample the doubly modulated beam is passed on to a photodetector, which in combination with appropriate signal processing apparatus detects a signal at the characteristic offset frequency representative of the spectral feature.
Abstract:
A wavelength-modulated derivative spectrometer is disclosed which enables continuous measurement of trace amounts of NH.sub.3 in stack gas which includes a high concentration of SO.sub.2, and which in general enables measurement of low amounts of a substance having a relatively broad-band absorption spectrum present in a gas together with a high concentration of a substance having a relatively narrow-band periodic spectrum structure, with interference resulting from the latter substance being substantially eliminated.
Abstract:
A wobbling single slit is provided as the entrance slit of a spectrometer which rectilinearly reciprocates at a constant amplitude, such amplitude being selectively adjustable. A control signal is obtained from a circuit that oscillates the slit for controlling the frequency and phase of the ac signal component detected and amplified from the detector after the superposed dc detected signal component is separated from the ac signal component.