Abstract:
A Rowland circle-type polychromator with the Rowland circle arc pivotally connected to the concave grating. Separate adjustments are provides for shifting the spectral lines and focussing. A tie rod is used to adjust the focus of the spectral lines. Dectectors are predeterminedly spaced along the arc to simultaneously detect unique spectral lines for analysis of multiple elements contained in a single sample.
Abstract:
A spectral analyzer and direction indicator is disclosed and is responsive to collimated or essentially collimated incident radiation. The spectral analyzer and direction indicator includes optical apparatus (13, 15, 113) for providing optical information including diffracted optical information. A detector structure (21, 23, 117) is responsive to the optical information to provide detection output information indicative of incidence direction and spectral content collimated or essentially collimated incident radiation. A processor (20, 120) determines whether the diffraction information includes second order diffraction.
Abstract:
Light from a light source is dispersed by a grating. Two multichannel light detectors are arranged for detecting the dispersed light. One light detector detects the first order of interference and the other light detector detects the second order of interference in overlapping wavelength ranges. The outputs of the two light detectors are averaged for improving the S/N ratio, particularly in wavelength ranges in which the light intensity of the light source is low.
Abstract:
An optical partial pressure gas analyzer employs an electron beam to excite the outer electrons of gas atoms or molecules, and one or more photomultiplier tubes or other similar detectors to detect wavelengths of photons characteristic of the decay of the outer electrons of one or more species of gas molecules. The photomultiplier tubes have a viewing direction substantially at right angles to the electron beam. A Faraday trap or similar device is employed to avoid secondary electron generation. Thin-film interference filters are favorably employed to pass a specific characteristic wavelength of the desired species, and to reject other wavelengths. An electromechanical filter changer permits each photomultiplier tube to analyze two or more gasses alternately.
Abstract:
An automatic digital light source adjustment procedure is disclosed wherein a computer calculates a correction factor for each of a plurality of light sources and adjusts the light sources such that each of the light sources meets an optimum performance criteria. In one embodiment, a multicolor cathode ray tube is converged automatically utilizing the present invention by sensing the profiles of the amplitudes of the individual color light intensities versus the same light source position relative to the sensor mechanism for each of the three primary colors, calculating the correction factor and inputting the correction factor to a digital memory, and then providing for the correction factor to be applied to the analog output of the beam control thereafter. Alternative embodiments enhance focus, purity, light line width, color composition, and other performance factors. The sensor, in one embodiment, senses the speed of the relative motion between the light and the sensor, as well as simultaneously sensing the amplitudes of the individual colors.
Abstract:
System and method for analyzing spectral data from an optical fiber waveguide. Light from the waveguide is directed to a diffraction grating which separates the light into its spectral components and directs these components toward a light responsive detector. The grating is rotated to cause spectral components of different wavelengths to sweep across the detector, and a sensor provides a signal corresponding to the angular position of the grating. A table of calibration data is generated by introducing monochromatic light of known wavelength into the waveguide, positioning the grating to cause the light at two known points in the spectrum of the monochromatic light to impinge upon the detector, and utilizing the wavelength of the monochromatic light and the values of the sensor signal at the two known points to define the relationship between the sensor signal and the detected wavelength for a plurality of grating positions. The calibaration data and the sensor signal are utilized to determine the wavelength of light peaks produced by a sample, and they are also utilized to generate a control signal for positioning the grating very accurately to detect light of a given wavelength. In one disclosed embodiment, two detectors having different spectral responses are employed, and light in different portions of the spectrum is detected by respective ones of the detectors.
Abstract:
When a light emitted during the irradiation by a laser beam onto the surface of steel is spectrally separated and elements contained in the steel are analyzed quantitatively:an infrared pulse laser beam irradiates a sample such that an energy density on the surface of the sample becomes 2.0.times.10.sup.9 W/mm.sup.2 or more, so that a satisfactory emission spectrum can be obtained; a light emitted from the surface of the sample is received through a path held under an atmosphere of inert gas by a light introducing system at a solid angle of 16 degrees or more, and thereafter, caused to form its image at an inlet slit of a spectroscope so that an emission spectrum intensity being low in variations can be obtained for a long period of time; and out of light emitted from the surface of the sample immediately after the irradiation by the laser beam, a firstly emitted light generating white noise is excluded and a subsequently emitted light is quantitatively analyzed, so that the accuracy of analysis can be improved with the influence of the white noise being avoided.
Abstract translation:当在激光束照射到钢表面时发出的光被光谱分离,并且定量分析钢中包含的元素:红外脉冲激光束照射样品使得样品表面上的能量密度变为2.0 x109 W / mm2以上,能够得到令人满意的发光光谱; 从样品表面发射的光通过光入射系统以16度或更大的立体角被保持在惰性气体气氛下的路径被接收,然后使其在入口狭缝处形成图像 使得在长时间内可以获得变化较小的发射光谱强度; 并且在激光束照射之后立即从样品表面射出的光,排除首先发出的产生白噪声的光,然后定量分析随后发射的光,从而可以提高分析精度 的白噪声被避免。
Abstract:
Configurations of optical systems using two concave mirrors to image an off-axis slit are used advantageously in monochromators or spectrographs in which the coma produced by one mirror is cancelled by that produced by the other mirror. However, such systems produce a curved line image of a straight line slit. This curvature is substantially removed in a two concave mirror optical system in which the off-axis angle and the separation 2L between the mirrors are chosen so that the principal ray OP.sub.1 from the center of the line object to the first mirror and the principal ray P.sub.2 I from the second mirror to the center of the line image are both substantially perpendicular to an axis of symmetry of the optical system which passes through the centers of curvature C.sub.1, C.sub.2 of the two concave mirrors. The image line is then curved in a plane normal to the image plane and appears substantially straight in the image plane.
Abstract:
A light and weather resistance testing apparatus (9) is provided with a sensor (1) located in the plane of the testing samples (14). The sensor (1) uses a transmitter (4) for wireless transmission of signals representing radiation received to an antenna (3) disposed on the wall (8) of the apparatus housing. The sensor (1) has multiple receptor cells (6) for various spectral ranges. The sensor (1) is powered by solar cells (7) located on the sensor housing. A plotter and display unit (13) can be connected to the apparatus for read-out of irradiance and irradiation. The wireless transmission of data from sensors to the display unit permits continuous measurement during rotation of samples and sensor.
Abstract:
An apparatus directed to a signal processing circuit for combining data from several spectral bands to enhance the signal-to-background ratio of a target detection system. Two spectral bands, with separate sensing arrays, receive analog signals which are fed to separate multiplexer units. From the multiplexers, the analog signals are applied to a comparator where they are compared with each other and also separately applied to shift registers where the signals are retained for further processing. If, during comparison, the ratio of the two bands is less than a threshold, there is an absence of cloud return and the signals stored in both shift registers are combined in a final output register. If the ratio of the two bands is more than a threshold, the band having the most cloud return is not used and the shift register containing the greater percentage of target return is processed through the output register.