Abstract:
A body component concentration measuring apparatus, and method, for measuring a concentration of a body component in a measuring portion of a living body, includes a light source for emitting light, a diffraction grating being movable to disperse light emitted from the light source into light components having a plurality of wavelength bands, a shutter for controlling transmission of the light components having the plurality of wavelength bands, a lens for focusing the light components passing the shutter onto the measuring portion, and a detector for detecting the light components passing through the measuring portion.
Abstract:
The invention provides a spectroscope that provides variable masks 24a and 24b that limits the light path of separated light beams in the spectrum direction and composite masks 24c and 24d that limit the same in the perpendicular direction. In addition, the invention provides a confocal scanning microscope that equipped with this spectroscope.
Abstract:
An optical monitoring arrangement utilizes the properties of a blazed Bragg grating to redirect a portion of an optical signal out of the axial path and into a detecting device. A plurality of blazed Bragg gratings are utilized, each having unique properties, to increase the robustness of the monitor. In particular, by utilizing a plurality of N gratings, the bandwidth of the monitor may be increased N-fold (assuming no overlap in wavelength between gratings). Alternatively, an improvement in resolution can be obtained by utilizing a narrower bandwidth and measuring N times the number of raw data points within that bandwidth. A combination of increase in bandwidth and resolution may be obtained by a comprise between these two extremes. Chirped blazed gratings may also be employed.
Abstract:
A beam splitting element having a diffraction grating is designed by careful selection of device parameters such as grating period, duty cycle, depth and refractive index. In particular, the parameters are selected in such a way that the product of refractive index, depth and duty cycle is equal to or bigger than a predetermined value. The diffraction grating device designed by these rules exhibits a high diffraction efficiency and small polarization dependence.
Abstract:
A direct-view handheld binocular spectrometer for use in a variety of educational settings. The device comprises a holographic transmission diffraction grating and a uniquely curved quantitative wavelength scale for viewing visible-wavelength spectra with both eyes simultaneously. A variable width entrance slit, adjustable illumination for the wavelength scale, and attachable corrective lenses enhance the ease of use and efficiency as compared to traditional monocular spectrometers.
Abstract:
A conical diffraction grazing incidence spectroscope for performing wavelength scanning by rotating a diffraction grating about an axis set parallel to groves in a grazing surface of the grating.
Abstract:
A materials properties measuring system for using electromagnetic radiation interactions with selected materials positioned at a measuring location to determine selected properties thereof having an electromagnetic radiation source along with a plurality of radiation convergence elements for receiving any incident beams of electromagnetic radiation including the source having corresponding selected cross sections substantially perpendicular to the input path, and for converging these incident beams into corresponding departing beams including to the selected material each having a selected cross section substantially perpendicular to the output path that is smaller than that of its corresponding incident beam, and transmitting them to a beamsplitter that has an area as great as any such element. An electromagnetic radiation receiver is provided to receive any beams of electromagnetic radiation incident thereon after propagating thereto from the beamsplitter. The electromagnetic radiation source for providing propagating selected electromagnetic radiation at an output thereof is formed by a plurality of electromagnetic radiation emitters with differing center emission wavelengths and a beam combiner is provided with them wherein any electromagnetic radiation emitted by any of said electromagnetic radiation emitters enters at differing points to follow at least in part a common optical path to an output through at least some portion of the combiner determined by reflections and transmissions thereof in and at the combiner.
Abstract:
A spectroscopic apparatus which is compact in size and performs high-precision light-splitting with a large angular dispersion. An optical input-processing section outputs a filtered transmitted light, using a bandpass filter that transmits only wavelength bands at one period of an input light, and collects the filtered transmitted light to generate a collected beam. An optic includes a first reflection surface and a second reflection surface which are high but asymmetric in reflectivity, and causes the collected beam incident thereon to undergo multiple reflections within an inner region between the first reflection surface and the second reflection surface, to thereby cause split beams to be emitted via the second reflection surface. A received light-processing section performs received light processing of the beams emitted from the optic. A control section variably controls at least one of a filter characteristic of the bandpass filter and an optical length through the optic.
Abstract:
Encoded spatio-spectral information processing is performed using a system having a radiation source, wavelength dispersion device and two-dimensional switching array, such as digital micro-mirror array (DMA). In one aspect, spectral components from a sample are dispersed in space and modulated separately by the switching array, each element of which may operate according to a predetermined encoding pattern. The encoded spectral components can then be detected and analyzed. In a different aspect, the switching array can be used to provide a controllable radiation source for illuminating a sample with radiation patterns that have predetermined characteristics and separately encoded components. Various applications are disclosed.
Abstract:
Optical devices and related methods are provided. One example of the optical device includes two or more optical members joined together to form a stack. Each of the optical members in the stack includes a reflecting surface that has a corresponding slope, where the slope of each reflecting surface is different. In addition, disposed on each reflecting surface is a material that is reflective for a particular wavelength of light, so that each optical member reflects a different wavelength, and so that the optical members in the stack are able to collectively image the reflected signals onto a two dimensional detection plane.