Abstract:
The invention concerns an optical grating drive apparatus wherein a carriage for multiple diffraction gratings is movable between a plurality of locations, there being stops to limit carriage movement at such locations in which different gratings are selectively presented in the path of an incident beam; also a plurality of cam followers are shiftable relative to rotary cam means between positions in which different followers selectively engage the cam means and are displaced in response to cam means rotation; the followers and carriage have operative interconnection such that when a selected follower is engaged with the cam means the carriage may occupy alternate locations in order to selectively present corresponding gratings to the beam path; and displacement of a selected follower in response to cam rotation effects rotation of a selected grating in the beam path.
Abstract:
The disclosure concerns the provision of means for significantly reducing certain inaccuracies associated with circular dichroism measurement, and in which a certain signal (alternately proportional to sample characteristic transmission values for predominantly right-circularly polarized light and leftcircularly polarized light) is processed to produce a modified signal proportional (within a predetermined additive constant) to the logarithm of the certain signal, the AC component of the modified signal being used in indicating the value of circular dichroism.
Abstract:
For use in a spectropolarimeter having an electromagnetic radiation beam source, a detector, a linear polarizer in the path of the beam between said source and detector, and first converter means in said path and characterized as operable to convert linearly polarized radiation to elliptically polarized radiation, the combination comprising: A. SECOND CONVERTER MEANS IN SAID PATH AND CHARACTERIZED AS OPERABLE TO CONVERT ELLIPTICALLY POLARIZED RADIATION TO LINEARLY POLARIZED RADIATION, AND B. A SAMPLE SPACE IN THE PATH OF THE BEAM PASSING FROM SAID SECOND CONVERTER MEANS.
Abstract:
Fourier spectroscopy is used in the measurement of circular dichroism, the method involving the use of an interference polarization modulator which is characterized by production of negligible amplitude modulation in the absence of dichroism in the optical train that follows the modulator and in the detector. Either linear or circular dichroism in that region of the instrument will convert the polarization modulation into amplitude modulation. The polarization modulation is characterized by a different frequency for each wavelength of the radiation, thus the signals caused by the interaction of the radiation with dichroic sample may all be recorded simultaneously and may subsequently be ''''unscrambled'''' to derive the inverse Fourier transform of the ensemble of frequencies constituting the complete signal, and thus obtaining a transmission spectrum corresponding to the dichroism. The transmission spectrum in turn, in the case of the circular dichroism, may be converted into dichroism by dividing by the ordinary transmission spectrum (corresponding to ordinary absorption) which may be derived by ordinary Fourier spectroscopy.
Abstract:
A concentration difference cell adapted for use with spectrophotometer apparatus producing a light beam, the cell comprises: A. FIRST AND SECOND CHAMBERS INCLUDING WINDOWS LOCATED TO PASS THE BEAM TRANSMITTED SUCCESSIVELY THROUGH THE CHAMBERS, B. SAID CHAMBERS HAVING ASSOCIATED BEAM PATH DIMENSIONS, THE BEAM PATH DIMENSION OF THE FIRST CHAMBER BEING ADAPTED TO INCREASE WHILE THE BEAM PATH DIMENSION OF THE SECOND CHAMBER DECREASES AND IN RESPONSE TO MOVEMENT OF AT LEAST ONE WINDOW, WHEREBY THE VOLUME OF THE FIRST CHAMBER REMAINS PROPORTIONAL TO THE INCREASE IN THE BEAM PATH DIMENSION OF THE FIRST CHAMBER, AND THE SUM OF THE BEAM PATH DIMENSIONS OF THE FIRST AND SECOND CHAMBERS REMAINS CONSTANT, C. THE CHAMBERS ARRANGED IN SUCH RELATION THAT A PREDETERMINED QUANTITY OF A FIRST LIQUID IN THE FIRST CHAMBER MAY BE DILUTED BY INTRODUCTION INTO THE FIRST CHAMBER OF A QUANTITY OF AUXILIARY LIQUID ACCOMPANIED BY MOVEMENT OF SAID ONE WINDOW TOWARD THE SECOND CHAMBER CONTAINING SECOND LIQUID, THE REFRACTIVE INDEX OF THE LIQUID IN THE FIRST CHAMBER BEING KEPT SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL TO THE REFRACTIVE INDEX OF THE SECOND LIQUID SO LONG AS SAID BEAM PATH DIMENSION OF THE FIRST CHAMBER IS AN APPRECIABLE PART OF SAID SUM.
Abstract:
Apparatus for passing light repeatedly through a sample in a sample space comprises two longitudinally separated reflectors one of which is concave and the other of which is planar, the reflectors located to repeatedly reflect a light beam therebetween for passage repeatedly through the sample space.
Abstract:
The method of making a glass electrode more sensitive to K than to Na in electrolytic solution includes the steps of forming a glass melt to have an initial composition of K2O, A12O3 and SiO2 where the mol percents of K2O and Al2O3 are chosen to optimize sensitivity ratio (K sensitivity to Na sensitivity) with low electrode output drift; digesting the melt for an extended period to substantially reduce the electrode output drift rate; and forming the electrode from the digest melt.