Abstract:
A holographic grating spectrophotometer for detecting ozone and sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere is described which provides automatic calibration and which provides automatic linearity correction for the photomultiplier tube. Automatic calibration is provided by using a computer to control a stepper motor to move the grating so that the photomultiplier tube receives maximum intensity at the calibration wavelength of 302.1 nm from a mercury source. Automatic linearity correction is obtained by cycling a wavelength selection mask across exit slits located in the focal plane of the device and firstly combines separately taken counts of two different wavelengths and comparing this sum with the sum of counts of these wavelengths taken simultaneously. The difference is used to calculate photomultiplier tube deadtime and improve accuracy of the results. In a preferred embodiment five wavelengths are used to calculate ozone and sulphur dioxide levels, and a stepper motor driving a cylindrical wavelength selection mask permits exit slits to be exposed to predetermined wavelengths one at a time.
Abstract:
A scanning-type lithographic and image-pickup device causes the terminal face of either a projecting optical fiber or a picking-up optical fiber to scan a given object in the plane of real image of an objective lens, projects a light through the projecting optical fiber onto the object, and receives the reflected light or a light of photoluminescence through the picking-up optical fiber. When this device is applied to a spectromicroscope, the quantitative surface information can be spectrally measured with high resolution and high reproducibility. When the device is applied to a contracting-projection exposure device or a selective laser annealing device, positional alignment and exposure pattern correction can be easily effected with high accuracy and high productivity. Simultaneous fabrication of a plurality of electronic components can be also obtained by use of this device.
Abstract:
A spectrophotometer utilizing a multiple wavelength electromagnetic wave source which is intercepted and dispersed into a spectrum. The spectrophotometer includes a closed loop servo positioning mechanism for simultaneously directing selected portions of the electromagnetic spectrum to a detector which analyzes these portions of the spectrum for analytical purposes.
Abstract:
A spectrum analyzing system measures or analyzes the colorimetric properties of a test sample at a preselected wavelength or range of wavelengths within the ultraviolet, visible, and near infrared regions. The system includes a spectrophotometer provided with a wideband light source, optical devices providing a sample light path and a reference light path, a chopper wheel allowing light to be directed alternately along the sample and reference paths interspersed with dark periods during which no light travels along either path, a dispersion grating for dispersing the light from both paths, a series of neutral density filters for limiting to various degrees the amount of light traversing each path, and a linear array of photodiodes for detecting the dispersed light at different wavelengths. The system also includes an electronic control section including a programmable power supply for controlling the intensity of light from the light source whereby the combination of the use of the neutral density filters in conjunction with controlling the intensity of light from the light source can be used to operate the photodiode array to prevent operation thereof near the saturated and dark current levels, and means for scanning the photodiode array at high speeds during rotation of the chopper wheel to provide a high speed spectral readout.
Abstract:
A spectrometer with the basic optical elements is described which scans the spectrum electronically rather than by mechanical manipulation or use of image tubes. The detecting elements are light sensitive charge coupled device detector arrays.
Abstract:
A spectrophotometer system having a first stepper motor driving a wavelength scanning mechanism and a second stepper motor driving a chart recorder, both motors being operative in response to pulses from a system clock. The clock frequency is successively divided by first and second cascaded, switch-selectable sets of frequency dividers. The output of the first divider is applied to the wavelength motor and determines wavelength scan speed. The output of the second divider is applied to the chart motor and determines chart scale expansion. A decoder monitors the frequency selections of the first and second sets of frequency dividers, and upon detection of a frequency selection outside the capability of the chart motor, the decoder provides an output which inhibits both motors. The decoder output additionally actuates a visual indicator to inform an operator of the invalid selection.
Abstract:
An electronic image-encoder with an SEC vidicon in which the electron beam is positioned according to a coordinate pair stored as digital signals and applied as analog signals to the deflection coils of the vidicon. This permits the beam to read selected points on the vidicon target and the beam is blanked until the desired deflection signals are applied. In one version of the device, the deflection signals are simply voltages corresponding to the values of the digital signals. In another version, one digital signal is converted to an analog deflection voltage and a standard ramp is used as the other deflection voltage, the beam being turned on to read only after a time interval following initiation of the ramp, which interval is proportional to the other digital signal. A special application of the encoder incorporates a crosseddispersion optical system for projecting several stacked spectral orders into the vidicon target. In all cases, the electron beam actuation provides an output signal corresponding to the image intensity at the point selected by the digital signal pair, and this output signal is digitized for storage, manipulation or display.
Abstract:
A rapid scan spectrum identifier fur use in identifying infrared spectrum of the output of a gas chromatograph to identify its absorption characteristics and includes an infrared source and beam splitter, a double beam chopper for alternately sending the infrared beam through a sample or reference gas cell mounted in a suitable furnace, the output of which is recombined and analyzed by a monochromator having a narrow output passband of energy detected by a rapid response detector, the output of which is processed by suitable electronic circuitry to provide a readout. The monochromator is of the scanning type in which a grating is synchronously scanned with a circular variable filter so that the first order output of the grating is selectively passed and higher orders rejected by the filter. The sample and reference gas cell furnace assembly utilizes specially constructed sample and reference gas cells symmetrically mounted in a furnace arrangement for maintaining input gas streams at equal temperatures within each cell and above the temperature of condensation of the sample under investigation. The beam chopper contains associated photoelectronics for physically determining the location of a chopping blade to thereby provide gating signals for indicating the presence at the detector of a sample, reference, or a background signals. These grating signals are used in sample and hold circuits to convert an essentially digitally sampled output into a relatively smooth continuous curve indicative of the absorption of the sample so that the readout represents the sample absorption characteristics corrected for reference for the carrier gas and background effects. The instrument is designed to operate with scan rates of approximately 6 and 30 seconds.
Abstract:
An automatic spectrophotometric absorption analyzer for continuous determination of a plurality of components of a fluid sample, comprising a monochromator with a diffraction grating receiving the light transmitted by a vessel with transparent faces which contains said sample, a photoelectric converter so arranged that the light beam emerging from the monochromator falls on its sensitive element, a unit for determining cyclically a plurality of stop positions of said diffraction grating which define wavelengths corresponding to the absorption lines of components of said sample, and means for automatic computation of the concentration of said components from the signal which is delivered by the converter.
Abstract:
A method for focusing the horizontal and vertical components of energy reflected from an echelle grating which includes rotating the grating about a first axis substantially parallel to a prism face and rotating the grating about a second axis substantially normal to the first axis.