Compound optical coupler and support mechanism

    公开(公告)号:US20060192126A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-08-31

    申请号:US11347567

    申请日:2006-02-06

    IPC分类号: G01T1/20

    摘要: A support mechanism for protecting an object is described. The support system includes at least one support or friction ring for providing dynamic protection to the object. One embodiment includes a support ring having corrugated bumps. Another embodiment includes multiple support rings axially separated by spacers. In another embodiment a support mechanism is provided having at least one friction ring in combination with O-rings. A compound optical coupler is also described, which has a self-wetting clear optical coupling gel and an elastomeric load ring.

    Matrix output device readout system
    4.
    发明授权
    Matrix output device readout system 有权
    矩阵输出装置读出系统

    公开(公告)号:US06747263B1

    公开(公告)日:2004-06-08

    申请号:US10006494

    申请日:2001-12-07

    申请人: Vladimir Popov

    发明人: Vladimir Popov

    IPC分类号: H01J4014

    CPC分类号: G01T1/208 H01J43/00

    摘要: A system for providing high-resolution display for a matrix output device, such as a Photo-Multiplier Tube (PMT) matrix, that requires a substantially less number of amplifiers than prior readout systems. A resistor matrix is coupled directly to the outputs of a matrix output device. The outputs in each row in the matrix are combined and amplified with an amplifier that is at an end of each row. Similarly, the outputs in each column of the matrix are combined and amplified with an amplifier at an end of each column. The amplifiers at the end of each row and column also provide conversion of the signals from a current to a voltage. The converted and amplified signals are then processed, using a simple yet accurate algorithm such as center of gravity interpolation, to determine location and other information. The determined information may relate to detection of photons on the PMTs, for example, and is provided as an output signal from the processing circuitry. The output signal from the processing circuitry can be sent to a display device such as a video monitor for display and further analysis of the determined information. The present imaging readout system provides substantial savings in the cost of production and operation of PMT systems, which typically have thousands of outputs requiring amplification for readout.

    摘要翻译: 用于为诸如光电倍增管(PMT)矩阵的矩阵输出装置提供高分辨率显示的系统,其需要比现有的读出系统少得多的放大器数量。 电阻矩阵直接耦合到矩阵输出装置的输出端。 矩阵中每行的输出被组合并放大,放大器位于每一行的末端。 类似地,矩阵的每列中的输出被组合并且在每列的末端放大放大器。 每行和列的末端的放大器还提供从电流到电压的信号转换。 然后使用诸如重心插值的简单但准确的算法来处理转换和放大的信号以确定位置和其他信息。 确定的信息可以涉及例如PMT上的光子的检测,并且被提供为来自处理电路的输出信号。 来自处理电路的输出信号可以被发送到诸如视频监视器的显示设备,用于显示和进一步分析所确定的信息。 本发明的成像读出系统大大节省了生产和操作PMT系统的成本,PMT系统通常具有数千个需要放大读出的输出。

    Very fast time resolved imaging in multiparameter measurement space
    5.
    发明申请
    Very fast time resolved imaging in multiparameter measurement space 有权
    多参数测量空间中非常快速的时间分辨成像

    公开(公告)号:US20040031906A1

    公开(公告)日:2004-02-19

    申请号:US10258917

    申请日:2003-06-10

    发明人: Anthony D Glecker

    IPC分类号: H01L027/00

    摘要: Plural electronic or optical images are provided in a streak optical system, as for instance by use of plural slits instead of the conventional single slit, to obtain a third, fourth, etc. dimensionnullrather than only the conventional two, namely range or time and azimuth. Such additional dimension or dimensions are thereby incorporated into the optical information that is to be streaked and thereby time resolved. The added dimensions may take any of an extremely broad range of forms, including wave-length, polarization state, or one or more spatial dimensionsnullor indeed virtually any optical parameter that can be impressed upon a probe beam. Resulting capabilities remarkably include several new forms of lidar spectroscopy, fluorescence analysis, polarimetry, spectropolarimetry, and combinations of these, as well as a gigahertz wavefront sensor.

    摘要翻译: 多个电子或光学图像以条纹光学系统提供,例如通过使用多个狭缝而不是传统的单个狭缝,以获得第三,第四等尺寸,而不是仅传统的两个,即范围或时间 和方位角。 因此,这样的附加尺寸或尺寸被并入要划线的光学信息中,从而被时间分辨。 增加的尺寸可以采取非常宽的形式范围中的任何一种,包括波长,极化状态或一个或多个空间维度,或实际上实际上可以施加到探测光束上的任何光学参数。 所产生的功能显着地包括激光雷达光谱,荧光分析,偏振测量,分光偏振测量及其组合的几种新形式,以及千兆赫兹波前传感器。

    Method and apparatus calibrating a plurality of preamplifiers
    6.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus calibrating a plurality of preamplifiers 失效
    校准多个前置放大器的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US4327371A

    公开(公告)日:1982-04-27

    申请号:US105067

    申请日:1979-12-19

    CPC分类号: G01J1/44 G01R35/005 H01J43/00

    摘要: A method and apparatus for quickly and easily calibrating a relatively unstable light detector, such as a photomultiplier tube. The system is particularly designed to effect large scale semi-automatic calibration of many photomultiplier tube-preamplifier combinations that may exist in, for example, a laser scanner system. Each preamplifier (10) includes an automatic gain control circuit (20) connected in a loop which is momentarily closed during a calibrate mode when a predetermined level of a calibrated light source (15) is directed upon the associated tube (12). An error amplifier (34) develops a voltage in accordance with the deviation of the video output of the tube from the expected level during calibration, and the error voltage is preferably stored in digital form (38) so that the gain of the preamplifier (10) may be maintained at the calibrated level between successive calibrations. The calibrated light source (15) is chopped to provide alternating bright cycles and dark cycles during the calibration mode. The preamplifiers are calibrated during the bright cycles, while the dark cycles are utilized to restore the direct current level of the video output signal, which restoration occurs in normal operation during horizontal blanking of the video system.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于快速且容易地校准诸如光电倍增管之类的相对不稳定的光检测器的方法和装置。 该系统特别设计用于对可能存在于例如激光扫描仪系统中的许多光电倍增管前置放大器组合进行大规模半自动校准。 每个前置放大器(10)包括一个自动增益控制电路(20),该自动增益控制电路(20)连接在环路中,当校准光源(15)的预定水平指向相关联的管(12)时,在校准模式期间瞬间闭合。 误差放大器(34)根据校准期间管的视频输出与预期电平的偏差产生电压,并且优选以数字形式(38)存储误差电压,使得前置放大器(10)的增益 )可以在连续校准之间保持在校准水平。 校准光源(15)被切碎以在校准模式期间提供交替的亮周期和暗循环。 在亮周期期间校准前置放大器,而暗周期用于恢复视频输出信号的直流电平,该恢复在视频系统的水平消隐期间在正常操作中发生。

    PHOTODETECTOR WITH NANOWIRE PHOTOCATHODE
    10.
    发明申请
    PHOTODETECTOR WITH NANOWIRE PHOTOCATHODE 有权
    具有纳米级光刻胶的光电转换器

    公开(公告)号:US20170062637A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-03-02

    申请号:US15256360

    申请日:2016-09-02

    摘要: A photodetector assembly for ultraviolet and far-ultraviolet detection includes an anode, a microchannel plate with an array of multichannel walls, and a photocathode layer disposed on the microchannel plate. Additionally, the photocathode may include nanowires deposited on a top surface of the array of multichannel walls.

    摘要翻译: 用于紫外线和远紫外线检测的光电检测器组件包括阳极,具有多通道壁阵列的微通道板和设置在微通道板上的光电阴极层。 另外,光电阴极可以包括沉积在多通道阵列阵列的顶表面上的纳米线。