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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system for monitoring and/or controlling an emission level of nitrogen oxides and a reducing agent from a stream of combustion exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine. SOLUTION: The internal combustion engine (116) includes an SCR (selective catalytic reduction) unit arranged in the stream of the combustion exhaust gas between an upstream conduit (124) and a downstream conduit (126). The SCR unit includes a catalyst configured to catalytically reduce the nitrogen oxides contained in the combustion exhaust gas to nitrogen atoms under the presence of the reducing agent and oxygen. Moreover, the internal combustion engine (116) further includes a reducing agent injection device (212). Under such conditions, the system includes a laser absorption spectroscopy unit (300) arranged in the downstream conduit (126) and configured to measure at least the concentration level of the nitrogen oxides and the reducing agent in the stream of the combustion exhaust gas, and a control unit (216). COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a laser diode structure that improves sensitivity of detection of a gas by reducing interference of a laser beam. SOLUTION: The laser diode structure 1 for use in gas detection includes a hermetically sealed casing 2 having an electric coupling portion 3, a bottom portion 4 and a window 5. A laser diode chip 6 and temperature control portions 9, 12 for the chip are provided in the casing 2. A thermoelectric element 12 serving as a Peltier element as a part of the temperature control portions is coupled to the bottom portion 4 of the casing 2 through a bottom surface 13, and coupled to the laser chip 6 through an upper surface 11. A temperature-controlled beam shaping member 14 which is provided between the diode chip 6 and window 5 and dims the laser beam 7, emitted from an opening of the laser diode chip 6, in parallel before the laser beam 7 passes through the window 5. The beam shaping member 14 in contact with the laser diode chip 6 is preferably in surface-to-surface contact with or bonded to the opening 8 through its boundary surface 16, or formed integrally with the opening 8. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a spectroscopic optical system that enables vertical illumination by an optical system only using refractive lenses and performs color correction of wide band of a DUV-UV (190 to 400 nm) range, and to provide a spectrometer. SOLUTION: The spectroscopic optical system includes a light source 100, a turn-back mirror 110, a field stop 120, an object-side condenser lens system 130 for collecting light on a specimen, an image-side condenser lens system 140 provided on an imaging face of the object-side condenser lens system, and a spectroscope 150 for spectrally diffracting regular reflected light from the specimen. Each of the object-side condenser lens system 130 and the image-side condenser lens system 140 is a spectroscopic optical system formed of only refractive lenses enabling vertical illumination in which color correction is performed in a wide band having a wavelength of 190 to 400 nm. A working distance (WD) of the lens is set to be not longer than a predetermined distance. A distance D between respective cemented lenses is set to be not shorter than a predetermined distance. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a microscopy imaging system which provides improved sensitivity and specificity. SOLUTION: This microscopy imaging system includes a light source system, a spectral shaper, a modulator system, an optics system, an optical detector and a processor. The light source system is for providing a first train of pulses and a second train of pulses. The spectral shaper is for spectrally modifying an optical property of at least some frequency components of the broadband range of frequency components, such that the broadband range of frequency components is shaped producing a shaped first train of pulses to specifically probe a spectral feature of interest from a sample, and to reduce information from features that are not of object from the sample. The modulator system is for modulating the property of at least one of the shaped first train of pulses and the second train of pulses at a modulation frequency. The optical detector is for detecting the integrated intensity of substantially all optical frequency components of the train of pulses of interest transmitted or reflected through the common focal volume. The processor is for detecting the modulation at the modulation frequency of the integrated intensity of substantially all of the optical frequency components of the train of pulses of interest due to the non-linear interaction of the shaped first train of pulses, with the second train of pulses as being modulated in the common focal volume, and for providing an output signal for a pixel of an image for the microscopy imaging system. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for illuminating a measuring surface, and a device and method for specifying the visual characteristics of matter. SOLUTION: An illumination device 2 for illuminating the measuring surface includes at least one radiation device having at least two radiation light sources provided to one holder and characterized in that at least two radiation sources have different spectroscopic characteristics, at least one iris device and at least one scattering device provided on this side of the iris device in a light path and used for uniformizing the radiated light going through the iris device and constituted so that the holder is made freely movable by a motor, the individual radiation light sources are respectively successively set to the optimum position with respect to the single slit in the iris device thereby and the radiated light for being radiated from the radiation light sources is turned to the single slit in the iris device thereby. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid fuel property detection apparatus (sensor) for detecting a specific component within a similar hydrocarbon system material contained in a fuel. SOLUTION: The liquid fuel property sensor 1 includes: a path 3a for passing the fuel; a light emitting device 4 for emitting a light including a plurality of predetermined wavelengths toward the fuel existing in the path 3a; a light receiving device 5 for receiving the light including a plurality of the wavelengths and transmitted through the fuel; and a calculation device 101 for calculating a concentration of one of an aroma, a paraffin and an olefin as component materials of a hydrocarbon system contained in the fuel. The calculation device 101 calculates the concentration of the specific component by using a characteristic of a transmittance to the wavelength light of at least one specific component among the aroma, the paraffin and the olefin, the quantity of the light including a plurality of wavelengths emitted from the light emitting device 4, and the quantity of the light received by the light receiving device 5. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
A light source device includes: a plurality of light emitting elements that emit laser light; and a wavelength selective element that includes a light selective region functioning as a resonator mirror of the light emitting element by selecting light of predetermined selective wavelength from the laser light emitted from one of the light emitting elements and reflecting the selected light toward the light emitting element while allowing the remaining laser light to pass therethrough, and a base member having a plurality of the light selective regions so that the wavelengths of the light selected by the light selective regions are different from each other.