Optics: measuring and testing – By dispersed light spectroscopy – Utilizing a spectrophotometer
Patent
1994-11-23
1997-12-16
McGraw, Vincent P.
Optics: measuring and testing
By dispersed light spectroscopy
Utilizing a spectrophotometer
356332, 356411, G01J 306, G01J 310
Patent
active
056991568
ABSTRACT:
A spectrophotometer employs an array of optical elements to focus light from at least one, but preferably two light sources onto a fiber optic beam splitter that provides a pickup for a selected bandwidth of wavelengths of light in the spectral pattern. The spectral pattern can include wavelengths in the visible, near infrared and ultraviolet spectrum. To create the spectral pattern, two reflecting prisms having spherical surfaces are used, and the optical elements are arranged so that the two spectral bands from each prism are longitudinally aligned to create the spectral pattern. The prisms are on a motor driven pivot mount so that the spectral pattern may be swept across the pickup. The optical elements and the pickup are sized so that the selected bandwidth is less than twenty nanometers over the spectral pattern. The pickup is formed by a single row of the ends of fiber optic strands which are then collimated into two bundles to transmit a test component and a reference component of light. The sample cell is somewhat elongated, and a lens is interposed in the test component path before the sample cell, and this lens is sized to focus light axially through the sample cell without impinging on the sidewalls. Photodiode detectors, comparator circuitry and a controller are included.
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Henson Michael R.
Martin Timothy J.
McGraw Vincent P.
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