Abstract:
The invention concerns a circular disk-shaped carrier system with a plurality of integrated diffraction structures for the spectral analysis of light of the wavelengths 340-800 nm, wherein each diffraction structure includes a layer of a transparent plastic material which has a microstructure suitable for the diffraction of a wavelength within the wavelength spectrum of the light, and the carrier system includes at least two diffraction structures for the diffraction of light of differing wavelength.
Abstract:
Optical instruments having, inter alia, optics to process wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation to produce an interferogram. The instruments include at least one optical path and optical elements positioned along this path for splitting and recombining the wavelengths which interfere with each other to produce a plurality of different fringes of different wavelengths. In one group, the optics include matched gratings which are positioned along the optical path outside of the interferometer optics to produce first and second sets of spectrally dispersed beams. The interferometer optics also includes a beam splitter and first and second mirrors. The gratings may be positioned in a variety of locations along the optical path. In another group, the optics include a beam splitter having a plurality of surfaces, wherein each of the surfaces is either 100% reflective, 100% transmissive or 50% reflective and 50% transmissive. In a third group, the optics includes the beam splitter having a plurality of reflective and transmissive surfaces and matched gratings. The instruments can all include a detector for detecting the interferogram and means for processing the detected interferogram to produce spectral information.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a diffraction grating element that allows the temperature control mechanism to be dispensed with or simplified. The diffraction grating element of the present invention comprises a transparent plate having a first surface and a second surface that are substantially parallel with one another; and a diffraction grating which is formed on a first surface side with respect to the second surface and is substantially parallel with the first surface. At any temperature within a temperature range −20° C. to +80° C., the sum of the rate of change in the period per unit length of the diffraction grating with respect to a temperature change, and the temperature coefficient of the refractive index of a medium that surrounds the diffraction grating element is 0.
Abstract:
A Littman configuration type wavelength tuning mechanism comprising an LD block (1), a grating (3) and a wavelength adjusting mirror (4). In the wavelength tuning mechanism, turning means realizing a Littman configuration of said grating with regard to said wavelength adjusting mirror is realized by an armless structure to be turned about the virtual pivot (2-2) of said wavelength adjusting mirror.
Abstract:
The subject invention relates to the design of a compact imaging spectrometer for use in thin film measurement and general spectroscopic applications. The spectrometer includes only two elements, a rotationally symmetric aspheric reflector and a plane grating. When employed in a pupil centric geometry the spectrometer has no coma or image distortion. Both spherical aberration and astigmatism can be independently corrected. The invention is broadly applicable to the field of optical metrology, particularly optical metrology tools for performing measurements of patterned thin films on semiconductor integrated circuits
Abstract:
A biocompatible monomer composition includes: (A) at least one monomer, which forms a medically acceptable polymer; (B) at least one plasticizing agent present in the composition in an amount of from 0.5 wt. % to 15 wt. % of the composition; and (C) at least one acidic stabilizing agent having a pKa ionization constant of from about 1 to about 7. The composition can be applied to a variety of materials and is particularly suitable as in vivo tissue adhesive. A method of joining together in vivo two surfaces, e.g., body tissues, includes (a) holding damaged tissue edges together to form abutted tissue surfaces; (b) applying to the abutted tissue surfaces an excessive amount of a composition containing 1) at least one monomer, which forms a medically acceptable biodegradable polymer, 2) at least one plasticizing agent; and 3) at least one acidic stabilizing agent; and (c) maintaining the surfaces in contact until the composition polymerizes to form a thick film of polymerized composition bridging the abutted tissue surfaces.
Abstract:
A monochromator including: a concave mirror which converts incident light into parallel light and emits the parallel light, a plane diffraction grating for diffracting the parallel light emitted from the concave mirror, first reflection means which reflects first light diffracted by the plane diffraction grating and causes the diffracted light to enter the plane diffraction grating as second incident light, second reflection means which reflects second diffracted light and causes the reflected light to enter the plane diffraction grating as third incident light, and an exit slit disposed in the vicinity of a focal point such that third diffracted light is reflected by the first reflection means, to thereby enter the plane diffraction grating as fourth incident light and such that fourth diffracted light is converged at the focal point by the concave mirror, to thereby enable extraction of light having a specific wavelength.
Abstract:
The invention features an optical medium for calibrating UV absorbance detectors, methods for making such an optical medium, and methods for calibrating UV absorbance detectors using such a medium. The optical calibration medium includes a gel-sol silica glass monolith with a rare-earth dopant therein. The rare-earth dopant exhibits at least one spectral feature in at least the far UV range. The constituents of the gel-sol silica glass monolith are selected so the rare-earth doped sol-gel glass monolith exhibits a transmittance in the far UV range so each distinct spectral feature of the rare-earth dopant in the far UV range is discernable.
Abstract:
An optical demultiplexer has light input means, a collimator lens, a substrate with a diffraction grating formed thereon, and light detecting means for detecting light demultiplexed by the diffraction grating. The diffraction grating comprises a reflective diffraction grating having a reflecting surface. The light input means and the light detecting means face the reflective diffraction grating with the collimator lens interposed therebetween. The reflecting surface includes a light transmitting area in at least a portion thereof. An optical demultiplexer having an input optical fiber, a collimator lens, a diffraction grating having a reflecting surface which includes a partial light transmitting area, and light detecting means for detecting light demultiplexed by the diffraction grating is assembled by monitoring light having passed through the light transmitting area and adjusting the position of the optical axis of the diffraction grating.
Abstract:
A spectrometer having an optical arrangement for capturing light to be measured and the separation of the light into spectral portions with a light entry, a reflecting diffraction grating and an exit surface from which the spectrally separated light to be measured exits is disclosed. The optical arrangement includes an at least partially transparent carrier body which is defined by two opposite end surfaces whereby the light entry, the reflecting diffraction grating and the exit surface are located on the side of the first of the two end surfaces of the carrier body and the second of the two end surfaces includes a reflective concave mirror which collimates the entering light and reflects it onto the reflecting diffraction grating and focuses the light diffracted by the reflecting diffraction grating onto the exit surface, whereby the light entry and the exit surface are spaced apart and dispersion of the light in the exit surface is at least about perpendicular to a line of connection between the light entry an the exit surface.