摘要:
Integrated computational elements having alternating layers of materials may be problematic to configure toward mimicking some regression vectors. Further, they sometimes may be inconvenient to use within highly confined locales. Integrated computational elements containing a quantum dot array may address these issues. Optical analysis tools with an integrated computational element can comprise: an electromagnetic radiation source that provides electromagnetic radiation to an optical pathway; an integrated computational element positioned within the optical pathway, the integrated computational element comprising a quantum dot array having a plurality of quantum dots disposed at a plurality of set array positions; and a detector that receives the electromagnetic radiation from the optical pathway after the electromagnetic radiation has optically interacted with a sample and the integrated computational element. Optical interaction of electromagnetic radiation with the quantum dots at one or more set array positions can substantially mimic a regression vector for a sample characteristic.
摘要:
Technologies are generally described for determination and analysis of an optical profile of a liquid-based material to implement real-time monitoring of a composition of the liquid-based material for quality control. An imaging sub-system may include a plurality of illumination sources configured to illuminate the liquid-based material with light, and one or more detectors. The detectors may be configured to detect light reflected from a first surface of the liquid-based material, light reflected from a second surface of the liquid-based material, and/or light transmitted through the first surface and the second surface of the liquid-based material in response to the illumination. An analytics sub-system coupled to the imaging sub-system may be configured to analyze the detected light to determine an optical profile of the liquid-based material, and monitor the optical profile in real-time to detect changes in the optical profile indicative of corresponding changes to a composition of the liquid-based material.
摘要:
Disclosed are methods of fabricating an integrated computational element for use in an optical computing device. One method includes providing a substrate that has a first surface and a second surface substantially opposite the first surface, depositing multiple optical thin films on the first and second surfaces of the substrate via a thin film deposition process, and thereby generating a multilayer film stack device, cleaving the substrate to produce at least two optical thin film stacks, and securing one or more of the at least two optical thin film stacks to a secondary optical element for use as an integrated computational element (ICE).
摘要:
A gas concentration-measuring device makes it possible to measure gas components in a gas sample. An interferometer, based on a dual-band Fabry-Perot interferometer (1), is provided with a transmission spectrum that can be set by a control voltage (38). The control voltage (38) of the dual-band Fabry-Perot interferometer (1) is synchronized over the course of time with the activation and deactivation of the radiation sources (11, 12).
摘要:
Spectrometers and spectrometric measurement methods are disclosed. These employ narrow-band sources positioned in a circular array to perform spectrometric measurements that can employ Hadamard sequences.
摘要:
A hyperspectral imaging system and methods thereof especially useful in fields such as medicine, food safety, chemical sensing, and agriculture, for example. In one embodiment, the hyperspectral imaging module contains a light source (1) for illuminating the object (6) in a light-tight housing (17). The light is spectrally filtered (4) prior to illuminating the object. The light leaving the object is then directed through imaging optics (T) to an imaging array (9). In another embodiment, the object of interest is illuminated by ambient light which is then compensated by a light modulation system. In this embodiment, the light emitted from the object is spectrally filtered prior to reaching the imaging array.
摘要:
A gas analyzer system includes an optical source, an optical filter assembly, a controller, and an analyzer. The optical source generates an optical signal. The optical filter assembly includes different optical filters in which to filter the optical signal. During operation, the controller selects sequential application of each of the different optical filters in a path of the optical signal to modulate the optical signal using different frequency bands of optical energy. The modulated optical signal passes through an unknown sample. The optical analyzer analyzes the modulated optical signal after passing through the sample to detect which types of multiple different gases are present in the sample.
摘要:
Measurement device for chemical agents quantity contained in a gas medium having a source of monochromatic radiation with a wavelength which changes in accordance with time law that is supplied through an optical brancher to an optical modulator, and then into a gas medium to be measured and further into a photoreceiver, whose signal is supplied into a computing block, while another part of the radiation from the optical brancher is supplied into a gas correlating filter, and the radiation which passed through the gas correlating filter is supplied to the auxiliary photoreceivers, whose signal is supplied to the solving block of standard comparison for controlling the optical modulator and the computing block, so that on the photoreceiver, a radiation is supplied only from spectral lines or bands of radiation of the chemical agents to be measured, and signals from a part of spectral radiation in spectral lines and bands which coincide with a spectral lines of bands of absorption of foreign gasses are filtered out.
摘要:
Concentrations of N gas species can be detected from a single beam NDIR gas sensor having a differential infrared source and an (N+1)-passband filter (having a neutral passband and N absorption passbands for N gases) mounted at a single infrared detector by driving the infrared source with N input power levels to render the source into emitting at N distinct temperatures whose radiation outputs are characterized by N corresponding Planck curves which are dependent only upon the respective source temperatures and which link a Spectral Radiant Emittance MsubLamba with wavelength, measuring N detector outputs at the single infrared detector and detecting the concentrations of N different gas species, each of the N gas species having its own unique infrared absorption passband, by (a) setting up N causality relationship equations linking outputs of the detector respectively for N different source temperatures and a set of relevant parameters of the sensor components, (b) determining the values of all of the parameters for the N equations utilizing appropriate boundary conditions except the N concentrations for the respective N gas species, and (c) solving for the N gas concentrations with the measured N detector outputs, there being N equations and N unknowns, when N is an integer of 2 or more.
摘要:
A method of determining the content of SO2 in a beverage or food product includes the steps of (a) extracting a sample of a specific volumetric size of the beverage or food product; (b) injecting the sample into a sealed container defining a volume exceeding the volumetric size of the sample for the generation of a gaseous headspace above the sample; (c) allowing the sample to establish in the gaseous headspace a concentration of SO2 representative of the content of SO2 of the beverage or food product; (d) transferring a fraction of the gaseous headspace to an IR measuring apparatus; (e) measuring the content of SO2 of the transferred fraction of the gaseous headspace; and (f) determining the content of SO2 of the beverage or food product on the basis of the measurement of the of the content of SO2 of the transferred fraction of the headspace.