Optics: measuring and testing – By dispersed light spectroscopy – Utilizing a spectrometer
Patent
1997-06-06
2000-10-03
Kim, Robert H.
Optics: measuring and testing
By dispersed light spectroscopy
Utilizing a spectrometer
356361, G01B 902
Patent
active
061280801
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus is disclosed for measuring the refractive index difference between a reference and sample liquid based on an interferometric design. The resultant device has an almost unlimited range of operation in contrast to a conventional interferometric refractometer of the so-called polarization type whose dynamic range is restricted to a relatively narrow range of refractive indices. The measurement of the refractive index difference between a sample and reference cell is achieved by measuring the angle through which the plane of polarization of a combined beam has rotated. For the conventional device, this angle is restricted to about .pi. radians which corresponds to a half wavelength shift between the reference and sample components of said combined beam. The extended range device disclosed permits this angle to be tracked and measured accurately over many rotations. The rotation tracking is achieved by one of three embodiments, the preferred of which involves the use of a liquid crystal retarder. The other two techniques incorporate, respectively, a rotating polarizer and a doubly split beam. All three embodiments permit the measurement of both the sine and cosine of the rotation angle and, thereby, allows a four quadrant arctangent calculation to yield the rotation angle directly. The error associated with such measurements is not a function of the rotation angle of the combined beams.
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Janik Gary R.
Phillips David T.
Shepard Douglas W.
Trainoff Steven P.
Kim Robert H.
Lee Andrew H.
Wyatt Philip J.
Wyatt Technology Corporation
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