Optics: measuring and testing – By particle light scattering – With photocell detection
Patent
1989-04-14
1991-03-12
Willis, Davis L.
Optics: measuring and testing
By particle light scattering
With photocell detection
356352, G01B 902
Patent
active
049990136
ABSTRACT:
Interferometric equipment for detecting a substance having a structure preferably a periodic or quasiperiodic absorption spectrum; the equipment includes a source of radiation, a path for that radiation that includes a sample cell with the substance to be detected, an interference filter and a detector, and is improved in that the interference filter is constructed as an electrically tunable filter, including a plate or cell element with semitransparent reflective boundaries serving as electrodes; an electrical voltage is applied to said electrodes such that the transmission characteristics of the filter is varied and the amplitude of the voltage as applied to these electrodes is an indication of that variation; and the thickness of the plate or cell is selected to meet one of the following criteria (i) a distance between the interference lines produced equals a distance of absorption lines within a periodic absorption spectrum of said substance; (ii) the equipment causes a line to be separated from the radiation having a bandwidth which is small as compared with a spacing between two absorption lines of the substance to be found (iii) the equipment causes a line to be separated from the radiation, to overlap an edge of an absorption band of the substance to be directed.
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Fabinski Walter
Zoechbauer Michael
Hartmann & Braun AG
Koren Matthew W.
Siegemund Ralf H.
Willis Davis L.
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