Abstract:
Disclosed is a dispersive optics system, in the context of ellipsometer or polarimeter and the like systems, which, in use, produces a plurality of "Orders" of essentially single wavelength beams of light from a polychromatic beam of light. In use the availability of more than one "Order" of essentially single wavelength beams of light allows simultaneous measurement of more essentially single wavelength beams of light than would be possible were only one "Order" of essentially single wavelength beams of light present. Filters are present to reduce the effects of stray light on detector elements and to allow separating the wavelengths in overlapping regions of adjacent Orders.
Abstract:
Apparatus for producing interferograms on array of light detectors is described in which light from a field of view is gathered by a concave Newtonian mirror, collimated by a Schwarzchild objective and directed along a first optical path having PEM's modulated so as to act like an interferometer between a pair of linear polarizers and a lens for imaging light passing through said polarizers onto the array. Scattergrams are produced on the array by a laser in a second optical path that includes a linear polarizer, a modulated PEM for producing light that is polarization modulated, optical elements for directing the circularly polarized light into the field of view of the Newtonian mirror, a modulator for causing the PEM's in the first optical path to elliptically polarize light and a device for extracting the first linear polarizer in the first optical path from that path. The distance between the apparatus and an area under examination is determined by turning on the laser, sinusoidally modulating the PEM in the second optical path, detecting the light modulated by that PEM so as to produce a first sinusoidal voltage, removing modulation from the PEM's in the first optical path and determining the phase difference of a second sinusoidal voltage produced by one light detector of the array and the first sinusoidal voltage.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for modified intrinsic state spectral analysis determines a proportion of a plurality of intrinsic structures of an optically active molecule. A spectropolarimeter generates a plurality of intrinsic spectra. Each of the plurality of intrinsic spectra is an intrinsic state vector corresponding to a plurality of intrinsic molecular structures. The spectropolarimeter also generates a spectrum for a sample of the optically active molecule. The sample spectrum is a sample state vector of the optically active molecule. A controller determines a plurality of estimate state vectors based on a plurality of perturbed intrinsic state vectors. Each of the plurality of perturbed intrinsic state vectors corresponds to a perturbed intrinsic structure. An optimum proportion of the plurality of perturbed intrinsic state vectors corresponds to each estimate state vector. The plurality estimate state vectors are matched against the sample state vector to determine a best match estimate state vector. The optimum proportion of the best matched estimate state vector is the proportion of the perturbed intrinsic molecular structures in the sample of the optically active molecule.
Abstract:
An infrared spectropolarimeter system for making spectroscopic measurements of electro-optic properties of materials over a large wavelength range in the infrared is described which comprises in combination a spectrometer having a sample region for receiving a sample for making spectroscopic measurements thereon and a source of light for providing a sample beam of selected wavelength for projection through the sample region, the sample region defined between a first focusing element for selectively focusing the sample beam within the sample region and a second focusing element for collimating the sample beam and providing an output beam for analysis, first and second polarizers between the focusing elements with the sample region therebetween for selectively polarizing the sample beam, first and second rotatable optical retarders between the polarizers with the sample region therebetween for selectively retarding one linear polarization component with respect to the orthogonal component of the sample beam, and a detector for analyzing the output beam.
Abstract:
A multispectral sensor including associated detection apparatus which are able to detect and identify radiations scattered from an object or substance, and particularly depolarized as distinguished from polarized radiations, which depolarized radiations are due to volume scattering characteristics, not surface scattering characteristics, and which enable the object or substance to be uniquely identified as to its material composition, color, density and other similar inherent characteristics as distinguished from surface characteristics, physical location and physical orientation. The present multispectral sensor can use laser means as well as other means for generating illumination or radiation.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for monitoring the presence of water vapor in helium features providing two narrow infrared frequency band within and outside a water vapor absorption band, alternately projecting the two bands of infrared radiation into the helium by using the polarization properties of the infrared radiation, and subsequently detecting the two infrared bands and comparing their amplitudes. Besides providing an accurate and reliable measurement, the invention is compact and requires no moving mechanical parts.
Abstract:
An optical measurement system, the optical measurement system comprises optics, wherein the optics include a collection path and an illumination path and an objective lens. The optics is configured to acquire Raman spectrums of one or more structural elements located at a measurement site of the sample while being set-up to apply one or more optics parameters that comprise an illumination angle out of a set of multiple illumination angles that correspond to a numerical aperture of the objective lens. Each of the one or more structural elements has a dimension that ranges between one tenth of nanometer to one hundred microns; an optical spectrometer; a Raman detector that is downstream to the optical spectrometer; and a control unit that is configured to determine an expected radiation pattern to be detected by the Raman detector when the optics are set-up to apply the one or more optics parameters.
Abstract:
An ultra-wide angle broadband polarization imaging system based on a metasurface, and a detection apparatus, the imaging system comprising a first lens (L1) having negative optical power, a linear polarizer (P1), a quarter wave plate (P2), a diaphragm (STO), a second lens (L2) having positive optical power, a third lens (L3) having positive optical power, and the metasurface (M), wherein an object side surface and an image side surface of the lens are planar or spherical; and the phase distribution required for the system in a broadband spectrum band is achieved by setting different rotation angles θ of a unit structure of the metasurface.
Abstract:
This relates to systems and methods for measuring a concentration and type of substance in a sample at a sampling interface. The systems can include a light source, optics, one or more modulators, a reference, a detector, and a controller. The systems and methods disclosed can be capable of accounting for drift originating from the light source, one or more optics, and the detector by sharing one or more components between different measurement light paths. Additionally, the systems can be capable of differentiating between different types of drift and eliminating erroneous measurements due to stray light with the placement of one or more modulators between the light source and the sample or reference. Furthermore, the systems can be capable of detecting the substance along various locations and depths within the sample by mapping a detector pixel and a microoptics to the location and depth in the sample.
Abstract:
Systems, devices and methods that facilitate non-intrusive measurement and validation of field-reversal of a core plasma by combining DFSS and blended Zeeman concepts (i.e., sub-Doppler circular dichroism spectroscopy).