Abstract:
The present invention consists in a grazing incidence reflection spectrometer wherein light is caused to incide on a surface of a sample, and an intensity of light reflected from the sample surface is detected, thereby to measure an electronic absorption spectrum of a material adsorbed to the sample surface, characterized in that the incident light is visible light or ultraviolet light, and that the incident light has a predetermined glancing angle to the sample surface.
Abstract:
A scannable detector system for echelle grating spectrometers is disclosed in which a photodetector is positioned behind an aperture plate having a plurality of apertures corresponding to focal positions of the spectral array eminating from the grating. The detector is arranged to scan from aperture to aperture to measure the presence of individual wavelengths in the array. Additionally, the detector may be removed from the field of the plate to permit the substitution of a non-scannable array of detectors and an associated masking aperture plate to simultaneously measure the presence of a plurality of wavelengths in the spectral array.
Abstract:
A power control device for two or more adjustable hydraulic pumps operated by a common driving means with each pump having its own power regulator and a power control device for continuously adjusting the regulator to maintain a desired power value of the pump. A pressure-responsive device on each pump is responsive to the delivery pressure of the companion pump for adjusting its own power according to the said delivery pressure.
Abstract:
An electromagnetic radiation measurement device is disclosed, including an electromagnetic radiation sensor and a reconfigurable filter assembly. The reconfigurable filter assembly has a series of configurations, each configuration of the series filtering to a different wavelength band for measuring by the sensor. The wavelength bands of adjacent configurations of the series overlap thereby to define differential sub-bands. The device also includes a processor configured to utilise sensor measurements for different configurations of the series to derive measurement values for the sub-bands.
Abstract:
The laser linewidth is an important parameter for characterizing the coherence properties of a single-frequency laser. The disclosure of this patent document provides techniques for characterizing laser spectral linewidths of single-frequency lasers in form of analytical formula in connection with the use of one or more Sigmoid functions of observation time by including various physical origins affecting the laser linewidths in addition to the natural linewidth caused by the spontaneous emission or quantum noise that can be described with an analytical expression known as the Schawlow-Townes-Henry formula. The disclosed methods for characterizing the laser linewidth caused by various factors in analytical formula can be advantageously used in various applications including designing an optical interferometer based sensing device using coherent laser light from a single-frequency laser.