Abstract:
A robust, compact spectrometer apparatus for determining respective concentrations or partial pressures of multiple gases in a gas sample with single as well as multiple and even overlapping, absorption or emission spectra that span a wide spectral range.
Abstract:
An x-y coordinate is set on the surface of diffraction grating 3 with non-uniformly spaced grooves and expressed by the following series expansion which is a groove function describing a point (w,l) on the nth groove from the origin: 1 n = 1 null null null i , j null n i null null null j null w i null l j null null null ( i + j null 1 ) The focal length (r0null) and the expansion coefficient nij in this series expansion are so determined that all expanded terms Fij in the following optical path function are zero at a desired wavelength: 2 F = null i , j null F i null null null j null w i null l j = null i , j null [ M i null null null j + ( m null null null null null ) null n i null null null j ] null w i null l j null null null ( i + j > 0 ) the optical path being for the light that passes through entrance slit 1 to be reflected by concave mirror 2 and diffracted at a point (w,l) on the surface of diffraction grating 3 before it reaches exit slit 4. The positions of two point light sources C5 and D6 in a holographic recording system are so determined as to realize the required value of nij.
Abstract:
A digital spatial and wavelength domain system for multiplexing fiber Bragg grating sensors comprises: a plurality of optical fibers, each including a plurality of fiber Bragg gratings therein, each fiber Bragg grating having a selective center wavelength that is variable in accordance with strain for reflecting or transmitting light at the corresponding center wavelength in accordance with the strain thereat; means for providing broad band illumination (110) for the fiber Bragg gratings; means for each optical fiber for carrying the light to a selected location; and a wavelength dispersion device (136) responsive to the light from each of the fibers for wavelength separating the light in each fiber into the center wavelengths in accordance with the location of each fiber so that the selected location of each fiber and the wavelength separated light provides spatially independent signals for each fiber Bragg grating in each optical fiber.
Abstract:
A super high resolution optical resonator comprising a Fabry-Perot cavity and an intracavity diffraction grating which is operated in a non-zero diffraction order. The diffraction grating is of transmission or reflection type, blazed, single or multiple order. The resonant cavity can comprise two independent mirrors, multiple mirrors, or an optical resonator based on an optical fiber and one or more intracavity diffraction gratings operated in non-zero diffraction order inserted between the two or more mirrors or portions of the fiber, respectively. In a preferred embodiment, the diffraction grating is not in contact with one of the mirrors or the optical fiber. In another preferred embodiment, the diffraction grating is in contact with one of the mirrors or the optical fiber. In another preferred embodiment, the diffraction grating is part of one of the mirrors or the optical fiber. The width of the resonance is reduced by more than two orders of magnitude compared to prior art optical resonators and all diffraction orders except one of the diffraction grating are suppressed.
Abstract:
A spectrometer fitted with a thin light guide layer in a stratification manufactured by thin-film technology, said light guide being sandwiched between two cover layers of lower index of refraction, said layer light guide's end face comprising a grating which is illuminated with the light to be analyzed and passing through the said light guide layer, the spectrometer furthermore comprising a line sensor onto which is imaged the spectrum, the staircase echelon grating being fitted with transparent step surfaces and with step edges perpendicular to said layer's plane, a second medium forming an interface with the grating's step surfaces and having an index of refraction less than that of the light guide layer, characterized in that the height and the width of the grating continuously change in the staircase direction in such manner that for two selected wavelengths the particular total optical paths through the light guide layer and the second medium as far as a focal point pertaining the particular wavelength shall differ by the same multiple of the particular wavelength.
Abstract:
A scanning confocal microscopy system and apparatus, especially useful for endoscopy with a flexible probe which is connected to the end of an optical fiber (9). The probe has a grating (12) and a lens (14) which delivers a beam of multi-spectral light having spectral components which extend in one dimension across a region of an object and which is moved to scan in another dimension. The reflected confocal spectrum is measured to provide an image of the region.
Abstract:
A spectrometer arrangement is disclosed for the determination of a radiation wavelength of radiation emitted from a radiation source to be measured. The arrangement includes a diffraction grating on which the radiation of the radiation source to be measured is incident at a predetermined angle, wherein the diffraction grating is provided by a reflection grating having a variable lattice constant. The arrangement also includes a radiation detector for receiving from the radiation source to be measured radiation diffracted at a predetermined angle at the diffraction grating.
Abstract:
Encoded spatio-spectral information processing is performed using a system having a radiation source, wavelength dispersion device and two-dimensional switching array, such as digital micro-mirror array (DMA). In one aspect, spectral components from a sample are dispersed in space and modulated separately by the switching array, each element of which may operate according to a predetermined encoding pattern. The encoded spectral components can then be detected and analyzed. In a different aspect, the switching array can be used to provide a controllable radiation source for illuminating a sample with radiation patterns that have predetermined characteristics and separately encoded components. Various applications are disclosed.
Abstract:
A multiwavelength selector for use with a high speed performance monitor, that uses a spatial wavelength separator, a configurable spatial filter, a focusing assembly, and a photodetector to select a wavelength or wavelengths from a plurality of incoming wavelengths, for further processing by said high speed performance monitor. The invention is intended for use in a fiber optic network application.
Abstract:
A spectrometer system comprises (i) a slab waveguide characterized as an index of refraction higher than a surrounding medium, and having front surface and a rear surface opposite thereto, the front surface including a input portion for accepting optical radiation, a diffractor portion and an exit portion, (ii) a diffraction grating disposed on said diffractor portion of said front surface, (iii) a detector array aligned adjacent to the exit portion, and (iv) a mirror coated on the rear surface of the waveguide. Radiation transmitted within the waveguide from the input portion is reflected and collimated by the mirror to the granting. Light diffracted from the grating is dispersed to the mirror and reflected toward and through the exit portion and onto the array.