Abstract:
A measurement system includes a light source generating an output optical beam using semiconductor sources generating an input beam, optical amplifiers outputting an intermediate beam, and optical fibers receiving the intermediate beam and forming a first optical beam. A nonlinear element broadens the output beam spectrum to at least 10 nm, the spectrum comprising a near-infrared wavelength of 700-2500 nm. A measurement apparatus receives the output optical beam and delivers to a sample an analysis output beam. A receiver receives and processes the analysis output beam reflected or transmitted from the sample.
Abstract:
The invention relates to angle-limiting optical reflectors and optical dispersive devices such as optical spectrum analyzers using the same. The reflector has two reflective surfaces arranged in a two-dimensional corner reflector configuration for reflecting incident light back with a shift, and includes two prisms having a gap therebetween that is tilted to reflect unwanted light and transmit wanted light. A two-pass optical spectrum analyzer utilizes the reflector to block unwanted multi-pass modes that may otherwise exist and degrade the wavelength selectivity of the device.
Abstract:
Wavenumber linear spectrometers are provided including an input configured to receive electromagnetic radiation from an external source; collimating optics configured to collimate the received electromagnetic radiation; a dispersive assembly including first and second diffractive gratings, wherein the first diffraction grating is configured in a first dispersive stage to receive the collimated electromagnetic radiation and wherein the dispersive assembly includes at least two dispersive stages configured to disperse the collimated input; and an imaging lens assembly configured to image the electromagnetic radiation dispersed by the at least two dispersive stages onto a linear detection array such that the variation in frequency spacing along the linear detection array is no greater than about 10%.
Abstract:
The invention relates to angle-limiting optical reflectors and optical dispersive devices such as optical spectrum analyzers using the same. The reflector has two reflective surfaces arranged in a two-dimensional corner reflector configuration for reflecting incident light back with a shift, and includes two prisms having a gap therebetween that is tilted to reflect unwanted light and transmit wanted light. A two-pass optical spectrum analyzer utilizes the reflector to block unwanted multi-pass modes that may otherwise exist and degrade the wavelength selectivity of the device.
Abstract:
A spectrometer assembly (10) is disclosed. The assembly includes a light source (11) with a continuous spectrum. A pre-monochromator (2) generates a spectrum with a relatively small linear dispersion from which a spectral portion is selectable, the spectral bandwidth of the spectral portion being smaller than or equal to the bandwidth of the free spectral range of the order in the echelle spectrum. The centre wavelength of the selected spectral interval is measurable with maximum blaze efficiency. The assembly also includes an echelle spectrometer (4) with means for wavelength calibration, an entrance slit (21) at the pre-monochromator (2), an intermediate slit assembly (50) with an intermediate slit (3) and a spatially resolving light detector (5) in the exit plane of the spectrometer for the detection of wavelength spectra.
Abstract:
An Echelle polychromator 50 has disposed upstream thereof a pre-monochromator 14 comprising a prism 20. The linear dispersion of the pre-monochromator 14 is variable by varying the angular dispersion of the prism 20. A particular spectral position and the close vicinity thereof are analyzed by an Echelle grating 54 with high resolution. Care must be taken that, on the one hand, the detector array 66 of the Echelle polychromator 50 is fully exploited in response to the central wavelength respectively observed and that, on the other hand, interfering orders are kept away from the Echelle polychromator 50. The linear dispersion of the pre-monochromator is variable for this purpose.
Abstract:
An adjustable Echelle spectrometer arrangement which can be used in single- and multi-element analysis by the emission or absorption of optical radiation. To compensate all the manufacturing and setup errors, the only arrangements present are those to change the height of the entry slit arrangement above the base plate and to rotate the dispersion prism about a first axis, approximately parallel to its roof edge, and about a second axis, that is vertical thereto. This compensates for the effect of errors associated with component and setup parameters which results from greater tolerances, without impairing mechanical and thermal stability and imaging quality.
Abstract:
A detector system for Fourier spectroscopy such as a spectral domain optical coherence tomography instrument includes a diffractive optic for diffracting the interfering light into angularly dispersed wavenumbers, a prism for reduces a nonlinear angular dispersion among the wavenumbers, and a focusing optic for converting the angularly dispersed wavenumbers from the prism into spatially distributed wavenumbers along a detector having an array of pixels. A field lens between the focusing optic and the detector has a freeform surface for more evenly distributing the wavenumbers along the array of pixels.
Abstract:
The invention discloses a design method of a wavenumber linearity dispersion optical system and an imaging spectrometer, including: building an optical system including a grating, a prism and an objective lens that are sequentially arranged, the grating adjoins the prism; defining a linearity evaluation coefficient RMS; assigning a minimum value to the linearity evaluation coefficient RMS through adjustment to the vertex angle of the prism, when the linearity evaluation coefficient RMS is at minimum, the vertex angle of the prism being α1; acquiring compensations for distortion and longitudinal chromatic aberration of the objective lens based on the interval between equal-difference wavenumbers on the image plane when the vertex angle of the prism is α1; and optimizing the objective lens based on the compensations for distortion and longitudinal chromatic aberration of the objective lens to obtain an optimized optical system. Higher wavenumber linearity can be achieved through objective-lens-aberration compensated wavenumber linearity.