Method and apparatus for optically detecting the presence of an element in a substance
    81.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for optically detecting the presence of an element in a substance 失效
    用于光学检测物质中元素的存在的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US3740144A

    公开(公告)日:1973-06-19

    申请号:US3740144D

    申请日:1971-11-22

    Applicant: WALKER W

    Inventor: WALKER W

    CPC classification number: G01J3/433 A01K43/00

    Abstract: A system for detecting blood in eggs in which a beam of substantially monochromatic light or at least light within a very narrow wavelength band in the region of 578 nanometers (nm) is passed through an egg to be tested. The band is continually shifted in wavelength a number of times per second between substantially the shortest and the mid-length wavelengths of the broader blood absorption band, i.e. 578 to 573 nm. In a preferred embodiment, this is effected by a Fabry-Perot type interference filter placed in a light beam and oscillated about an axis by an electromagnetic device. A photoelectric device senses the light transmitted by the egg and the output signal derived therefrom is compared with an oscillating signal transmitted in time with the oscillation of the filter. If one phase relation exists between such signals, the egg is rejected as having blood present therein and if an opposite phase relation exists, the egg is retained as clear.

    Abstract translation: 用于检测鸡蛋中的血液的系统,其中在578纳米(nm)区域内的基本单色光或至少在非常窄的波长带内的光通过待测试的蛋。 波段在更宽的血液吸收带的基本上最短和中长波长之间的波长上每秒持续移动多次,即578至573nm。 在一个优选实施例中,这是通过放置在光束中的法布里 - 珀罗型干涉滤光片实现的,并且通过电磁装置绕轴旋转。 光电装置感测由鸡蛋传播的光,并将从其产生的输出信号与在滤波器的振荡时间内传输的振荡信号进行比较。 如果这种信号之间存在一个相位关系,则蛋被拒绝,因为存在血液,如果存在相反的相位关系,则保持鸡蛋清澈。

    Dual-comb spectroscopy
    84.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11796392B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-24

    申请号:US18063213

    申请日:2022-12-08

    Applicant: IRsweep AG

    Abstract: A dual-comb spectrometer comprising two lasers outputting respective frequency combs having a frequency offset between their intermode beat frequencies. One laser acts as a master and the other as a follower. Although the master laser is driven nominally with a DC drive signal, the current on its drive input line nevertheless oscillates with an AC component that follows the beating of the intermode comb lines lasing in the driven master laser. This effect is exploited by tapping off this AC component and mixing it with a reference frequency to provide the required frequency offset, the mixed signal then being supplied to the follower laser as the AC component of its drive signal. The respective frequency combs in the optical domain are thus phase-locked relative to each other in one degree of freedom, so that the electrical signals obtained by multi-heterodyning the two optical signals are frequency stabilized.

    GENERAL NOISE SUPPRESSION SCHEME WITH REFERENCE DETECTION IN OPTICAL HETERODYNE SPECTROSCOPY

    公开(公告)号:US20180283950A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-04

    申请号:US15941510

    申请日:2018-03-30

    CPC classification number: G01J3/45 G01J3/027 G01J3/433 G01J9/04

    Abstract: A heterodyne optical spectroscopy system comprises a light source that acts as a local oscillator (LO); a beam splitting component that generates a reference beam from the LO; a signal component that generates a sample signal from a sample; a beam blocker that can turn off the sample signal to generate blank shots; a composite signal detection subsystem that detects a heterodyned signal that is a mix of the sample signal and a portion of the LO; a composite reference detection subsystem synchronized to the signal detection subsystem to detect a portion of the reference beam; and a processor that processes digital signals from the signal detection subsystem and the reference detection subsystem. A very versatile reference scheme is developed to treat different heterodyne spectroscopies in a unified way, which achieves optimal noise suppression.

    METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ON-CHIP DERIVATIVE SPECTROSCOPY

    公开(公告)号:US20180209899A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-26

    申请号:US15874956

    申请日:2018-01-19

    Abstract: A derivative spectroscopy system for achieving a tunable resolution of 2 nm or less in resolving spectral components of an input optical signal is provided so as to estimate derivative spectra of the input optical signal based on the resolved spectral components. In the system, a first dispersive-element structure spectrally decomposes the input optical signal into subband signals. A second dispersive-element structure receives part or all of the subband signals and spectrally decomposes the received subband signals to plural spectral components. A material having a temperature-variant refractive index is used to build the second dispersive-element structure, enabling a shift of center wavelength of each spectral component as small as 2 nm of less upon changing a temperature of the second dispersive-element structure. By obtaining three spectral-component sets obtained at three different predetermined temperatures with the center-wavelength shift of 2 nm or less, first- and second-order derivative spectra are obtained with good accuracy.

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