Abstract:
A spectral colorimetric apparatus for detecting a color of an image of a test subject illuminated includes a stop; a spectral detection optical system for spectrally detecting a beam diffused in the test subject and passing through the stop; and a guiding optical system for guiding, toward the stop, the beam diffused in the test subject, wherein in a first section which is a section including an optical axis of the guiding optical system, condensing positions of the light beam condensed by the guiding optical system change depending on a position in a direction orthogonal to the first section, and the stop is disposed between condensing positions closest to and farthest from the guiding optical system, of condensing positions, in the first section, of the beam condensed by the guiding optical system, in a direction of the optical axis of the guiding optical system.
Abstract:
A scanner device includes a color measuring, a support surface for a measured object and a drive unit for moving the measuring head across the support surface and for adjusting the height of the measuring head in a direction perpendicular to the support surface. The measuring head is equipped with an illuminating channel and a collection channel. The illuminating channel has a light source and optical means for illuminating the measured object at a measurement site at a mean angle of incidence of 45°. The collection channel has optical means for capturing light emanating from the measured object at the measurement site at a mean collection angle of 0° and coupling it into a light guide, which directs the captured light to a wavelength-selective photoelectric transformer, which resolves it into a number of wavelength ranges and generates an electric measurement signal corresponding to each wavelength range.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a device for measuring fluorescent radiation emitted by biological substances, comprising a light source, a capturing unit, an evaluation unit, at least one emission fibre, and at least one detection fibre. Said emission fibre guides excitation radiation to the biological substrate and the detection fibre receives fluorescent radiation and guides it to the evaluation unit. The capturing unit comprises a semiconductor sensor arrangement that detects fluorescent radiation emitted by the biological substance in wave length areas that are separate from each other, are arranged. Data sets of at least two different reference measurements on at least two different biological substances are stored and compared to the measured measurement values to the stored data sets and issues a result relating to the pathological attacks of the examined biological substances and/or relating to the type of examined, biological substances.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for enhanced THz radiation coupling to molecules, includes the steps of depositing a test material near the discontinuity edges of a slotted member, and enhancing the THz radiation by transmitting THz radiation through the slots. The molecules of the test material are illuminated by the enhanced THz radiation that has been transmitted through the slots, thereby producing an increased coupling of EM radiation in the THz spectral range to said material. The molecules can be bio-molecules, explosive materials, or species of organisms. The slotted member can be a semiconductor film, a metallic film, in particular InSb, or layers thereof. THz detectors sense near field THz radiation that has been transmitted through said slots and the test material.
Abstract:
We disclose an apparatus comprising: a hand-portable optical analysis unit including an optical interface; and a device configured to receive and releasably engage the hand-portable optical analysis unit. The device comprises: a housing; a sample unit in the housing; and a resilient member configured to bias the sample unit and the hand-portable analysis unit towards each other when the hand-portable optical analysis unit is received in the device to compress a sample disposed between the sample unit and the optical interface of the optical analysis unit. Methods of analyzing samples are also disclosed.
Abstract:
The apparatus and methods described herein enable an operator to simultaneously collect images and spectroscopic information from a region(s) of interest using a multiple modality imaging and/or spectroscopic probe, configured as a catheter, endoscope, microscope, or hand held probe. The device may incorporate, for example, an ultrasonic transducer and a fiber optic probe to translate images and spectra. The apparatus and methods may be used in any suitable cavity, for example, the vascular system of a mammal.
Abstract:
A fiberscope device is disclosed which is suitable for video imaging, laser Raman spectroscopy and laser Raman spectroscopic (i.e. chemical) imaging. The fiberscope design minimizes fiber background interference arising from the laser delivery fiber optic and the coherent fiber optic light gathering bundle while maintaining high light throughput efficiency through the use of integrated spectral filters. In the fiberscope design, the laser delivery fiber optic is offset from the coherent fiber optic light gathering bundle. The laser delivery field is captured entirely by the light gathering field of view of the coherent fiber bundle. The fiberscope incorporates spectral filter optical elements that provide environmental insensitivity, particularly to temperature and moisture. The fiberscope is suited to the analysis of a wide range of condensed phase materials (solids and liquids), including the analysis of biological materials such as breast tissue lesions and arterial plaques, in such a manner to delineate abnormal from normal tissues.
Abstract:
This system collects light emitted by at least one light source (52) and focuses it onto at least one light detection device (54). Preferably, it comprises a first mirror (58) that collects light emitted by the source and focuses it on a second mirror (60) that focuses it in turn onto the device. The system is provided with a chamber that is opaque to all light, particularly ultraviolet radiation, and in which the light source, the light detection device and the mirrors are placed, and means of creating a vacuum in this chamber and filling it with a gas that is transparent to ultraviolet radiation.
Abstract:
A dispersive filter includes two dispersion systems with an intermediate slit between them. The two dispersion systems have similar but mirror image dispersion characteristics at the plane of the intermediate slit and are configured so that the entrance port of the dispersive filter is polychromatically imaged on the exit port. The intermediate slit passes blocks selected wavelengths and transmits the remaining dispersed wavelengths from the first dispersion system to the second dispersion system. The second dispersion system combines the dispersed beam that passes through the intermediate slit to form an output beam, which is focused on the exit port. In this manner, the radiance of the input radiation is preserved ignoring losses caused by the optical elements and the blocked wavelengths.
Abstract:
A light receiving optical system includes: a relay optical system for converging light to be measured which has been converged on an image plane of an objective optical system on a view angle defining aperture for incidence through the view angle defining aperture. The light receiving optical system has the relay optical system with a relay lens operable to be selectively switched between a first and a second conjugated positions, and a first and a second light flux limiting aperture members disposed in proximity to the relay lens in the case where the relay lens is selectively switched between the first and the second conjugated positions. The relay optical system selectively forms, on the image plane of the objective optical system, an enlarged image and a reduced image of the view angle defining aperture in the case where the relay lens is selectively switched between the first and the second conjugated positions to define an incident light flux through the view angle defining aperture by a first and a second light flux limiting apertures, respectively, in the case where the relay lens is selectively switched between the first and the second conjugated positions. A spectrophotometer has the light receiving optical system.