摘要:
A fiber optic sensor interrogation system with inbuilt passive power limiting capability based on stimulated Brillouin scattering that provides improved safety performance for use in explosive atmospheres.
摘要:
The present invention provides a meter and method of use for measuring an optical attenuation coefficient in a liquid medium. In operation, a collimated beam, produced by a laser of the attenuation meter apparatus, propagates thru the liquid medium with filtered back-scattered light arriving at a camera of the meter. A light image is formed at a focal plane of the camera. The light image is recorded and analyzed by a microcomputer to provide optical beam attenuations coefficients.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method of the noninvasive optical in-vivo measurement of properties of flowing blood in a blood vessel within a body, for example for determining the concentration of blood constituents, wherein the body is irradiated with ultrasound radiation at an ultrasound frequency (fUS) in order to label a blood vessel, the body with the blood vessel is illuminated with light with at least one light wavelength and the back-scattered light is detected with a detector, the light component backscattered by the body outside of the blood vessel is modulated by a frequency (fMG) that corresponds to the frequency (fUS) of the ultrasound radiation, and the light component backscattered inside the blood vessel is modulated due to the Doppler effect in flowing blood with a frequency (fMB) that is shifted by the Doppler shift (fD) with respect to the frequency (fUS) of the ultrasound radiation, and an evaluation device extracts the signal component modulated by the shifted frequency (fMB) from the detector signal measured at the detector.
摘要:
Physical property determination of a particle or classification of the particle as a function of the physical property by evaluating scattered light profile from a single particle is disclosed. The particle may include chemical structures that vibrate as a function of a physical property of the particle. The physical property may include an absorptive property of the particle or a chemical composition. From a detected scattered light spectrum, at least two anomalous dispersive regions may be identified. The physical property of the particle may be determined as a function of the at least two regions. A system employing the physical property determination can achieve sensitivities useful for low particle density applications such as detection for biological and chemical agents.
摘要:
A laser system is provided that includes a master oscillator, a pre-amplifier, a power amplifier, a beam doubler, and a beam tripler. The laser system is configured to generate three different wavelengths, including, for example, wavelengths of 1064 nm, 532 nm, and 355 nm. The pre-amplifier can be optically aligned along a beam path exiting the master oscillator, to receive and pre-amplify a laser beam generated by the master oscillator. The amplifier can be optically aligned along a beam path exiting the pre-amplifier, and can be configured to receive a pre-amplified laser beam generated by the pre-amplifier. The beam doubler and beam tripler can be optically aligned along a beam path exiting the amplifier and can be configured to double and triple, respectively, an amplified laser beam generated by the amplifier.
摘要:
A fluid characterization measuring instrument is disclosed that comprises a sample vessel for a bulk complex sample fluid having a capacity that is substantially larger than a domain size of the complex sample fluid and that is sufficiently large to cause bulk scattering effects to substantially exceed surface effects for the complex fluid sample, a coherent light source positioned to illuminate the bulk complex sample fluid in the sample vessel and a first fibre having a first end positioned to receive backscattered light from the sample after it has interacted with the sample. The first fibre can also be positioned close enough to an optical axis of the coherent light source and to the sample vessel to substantially decrease a contribution of multiply scattered light in the backscattered light. The instrument can further comprise a first photon-counting detector positioned to receive the backscattered light from a second end of the fibre, correlation logic responsive to the first photon-counting detector and single-scattering fluid property analysis logic responsive to the correlation logic and operative to derive at least one fluid property for the sample fluid.
摘要:
Interferometric focusing (IF), rather than conventional geometric focusing, of excitation light onto a guide-star that is embedded deeply in tissue, increases its fluorescence intensity. The method can extend the depth of wavefront measurement and improve correction inside of tissues because of its ability to suppress both scattering of diffuse light and aberration of ballistic light. The results showed more than two times improvement in SNR and RMS error of the wavefront measurement. Although only ballistic light in the excitation path is corrected, the intensity after wavefront correction increased by 1.5 times. When applying IF to a two-photon microscope with a near infra-red laser, this method would further extend the measurement depth and achieve high SNR for the wavefront sensor.
摘要:
A novel non-invasive anisotropic image scanning technology assessing tissue structural changes is disclosed for use as a non-invasive and rapid meat quality prediction tool.
摘要:
Systems and methods for detecting gases, airborne compounds, and other particulates, are provided. The system detects materials of interest, including but not limited to, volatile organic compounds, aerosols, particulates, and biological and other pathogens in a three dimensional volume over an area of interest. The system detects the concentration of analytes of interest in the presence of atmospheric contaminants. Data points form a three-dimensional “point cloud” to which particle swarm optimization and feature extraction algorithms are applied, providing leak detection, mapping of chemical plumes, and short-term and long-term flux measurements, among other functions.
摘要:
A particle characterisation apparatus is disclosed comprising: a light source; a sample cell; a collecting lens and a detector. The light source is operable to illuminate a sample comprising dispersed particles within the sample cell with a light beam along a light beam axis. The light beam axis passes through a first wall of the sample cell, through the sample, and through a second wall of the sample cell, so as to produce scattered light by interactions with the sample. The detector is configured to detect light scattered from the sample. The second wall of the sample cell comprises a lens with a convex external surface through which the light beam axis passes. The collecting lens is arranged to collect and focus scattered light leaving the sample cell onto the detector, and comprises an aspheric surface.