Abstract:
An automated analyzing apparatus with a photometer including an entrance slit permitting passing therethrough of the entirety or a portion of a convergent light beam transmitted successively through a plurality of sample measurement cells each containing a sample solution therein and a sensor converting the quantity of light passed through the entrance slit into a physical quantity which is an objective of measurement. A scattered light sensor is disposed between the sample measurement cells and the entrance slit at a position where the sensor is not irradiated with a straight advancing component of the light beam, whereby measurement of immunity-related tests on the basis of the intensity of scattered light can be made together with measurement of biochemical tests on the basis of the intensity of transmitted light.
Abstract:
An optical cell provides a measuring chamber which is L-shaped with an absorbance optical path lying along the horizontal leg of the L. A second optical path is provided transverse to the absorbance path and sized to permit the passage of radiation into the entire L-shaped chamber. The exit slit for the cell receives radiation from the entire vertical leg of the L and may serve as the entrance slit to a photometer.
Abstract:
The invention provides a system having a broadband spectrometer with a fiber optic reformattor for field use in detecting and identifying gas clouds within a field of view. The system includes a grating type spectrometer, a fiber optic reformattor, a focal plane detector array and electronics for background signal subtraction techniques for generating spectral signature data which is analyzed for gas detection and outputting a decision making signal for recognition.
Abstract:
An optical arrangement for use in spectrometry uses a masking device which eliminates unwanted spectral regions prior to optically resolving the unmasked information. The optical arrangement comprises an entrance slit to select incidence spectral energy from an energized source and a concave grating of relatively low dispersion to image the spectrum of the entrance slit onto a stationary mask which simultaneously selects spectral regions of the dispersed incident spectral energy. The selected spectral regions are collimated and recombined and directed onto an Echelle grating to disperse with high resolution the selected spectral regions. A concave mirror focuses the dispersed selected spectral regions into a focal plane of highly resolved spectral energy which can be detected to determine the spectral information coming from the source. The optical arrangement is particularly well suited for use with narrow spectral bandwidth spectral information distributed over a large spectral range. In spectroscopy, desired information very often occupies a tiny fraction of the total spectral information presented to a spectrometer. With this optical arrangement, spectral information can be selected from a much broader band spectral information and collected with high resolution on a small curvilinear portion of the output focal plane. The arrangement is particularly useful for absorption, light scattering or emission spectroscopy. It provides a stable mechanical design making it less sensitive to vibration. Manufacturing mechanical tolerances are also less restrictive.
Abstract:
An apparatus uses a rapid and efficient method for conducting fluorescence measurements, such as immuno assay, of a plurality of samples of a substance using pulsed or continuous light energy, front-end fluorescent optics, a mechanism which allows for lateral and tranverse scanning of rows and columns of wells, and spectra emission analysis of the spectra from the excited samples.
Abstract:
The disclosure relates to dispersive lenses and spectrometers for performing a method of focusing holograms in which the hologram that is placed on a spherical surface plays an active part in the focusing. Contrary to focusing methods of the prior art wherein the focusing locus is determined as a function of the tangential object and image focal lines, the described invention determines the focusing locus as a function of the sagittal object and image focal lines. A stigmatic mounting (i.e. a perfect mounting to eliminate odd order abberations) results in the tangential and sagittal focal lines being identical. The description sets forth equations to cover all points in the focusing plane by suitable action of the phase variations generated by the hologram. The diffraction grating used is reflective and includes a fixed entrance slit and at least one fixed exit slit.
Abstract:
A sine bar mechanism comprises an arm of radius R pivoted about an axis which is also the axis of a diffraction grating. An elongated member is pivotally mounted at one end, and is pivotally connected to the arm at its other end. The coordinates of the point at the pivotal mounting at one end of the member and the length of the elongated member are chosen to optimize the characteristics of the mechanism. Embodiments in which the elongated member comprises a lead screw and the pivotal connection comprises a nut pivotally attached to the arm and engaging the lead screw are described and their use in various types of monochromators are portrayed.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a grating monochromator for providing monochromatic radiation the wavelength of which is linearly proportional to a translation or rotation, said monochromator comprising an optical device including a reflection grating (1), an entrance slit (4) transmitting a beam onto the optical device, an exit slit (5) transmitting the beam reflected by the optical device, and a mechanism for moving the optical device and at least one of the slits (4,5) with respect to each other. Within said monochromator the moving mechanism is constructed so that in the course of the moving both the entrance slit (4) and the exit slit (5) are always positioned along a Rowland-circle (R) related to the optical device including the grating (1), and there is a transducer (42) producing an output signal corresponding to the current wavelength value, said transducer (42) being connected to a member (33) translating or rotating proportionally to a distance between a point (A) of the Rowland-circle (R) lying diametrically opposite to the optical device and said at least one slits (4,5). The moving mechanism expediently comprises means (41,33) for altering the distance between said point (A) of the Rowland-circle (R) lying diametrically opposite to the optical device and said at least one slit (4,5), and said member (33) translating or rotating proportionally to said distance is a part of said means.
Abstract:
The disclosure is directed to a spectrophotometric measuring device equipped with a plurality of channels which automatically analyze many specimens with different testing items in a short period of time for application in biochemical automatic analysis or the like. The device of the invention is characterized in that white light from one light source is subjected to spectral diffraction through a long slit in X direction and wavelength dispersion irradiation light of an optical system including a spectroscope for dispersing spectrum of monochromatic light in Y direction intersecting at right angles with the slit, is projected onto one plate surface so as to select positions of the plate surface in the Y direction and X direction, and by providing the incident end faces of the optical fibers on the selected positions for free change-over, monochromatic lights of arbitrary wavelengths determined by the respective testing items are taken out, while the sample cell and detector are disposed to confront the optical fiber incident end faces for detection of intensity of light transmitting through the sample cell.
Abstract:
A diffraction grating mounting device for a scanning monochromator comprising: a base member; a diffraction grating; a diffraction grating supporting axle which integrally supports the diffraction grating and is rotatably supported by the base member; a first arm fixed to the diffraction grating supporting axle at right angles thereto; a second arm which is swingably supported on the base member in uniplanar relation with the first arm; a link member which connects the first and the second arms at points equally apart from the rotational centers of the first and second arms, respectively, the distance between the points being equal to that between the rotational centers of the first and second arms; a cam follower axle fixed to the link member at right angles thereto; a cam having a linear driving portion and being provided at one end of a right circular cylinder; a motor for driving the cam; and means for biasing the link member of the first and second arms so as to make the cam follower axle contact the cam.