Abstract:
In an optical spectrometer, a pair of solid state light sources, an optical filter, a photo detector, a servo amplifier and a servo motor are provided for maintaining proper alignment of a diffraction grating with respect to a focal curve having entrance and exits slits. The light sources and photo detector are positioned in registration with a vertical entrance slit and a vertical offset exit slit, respectively, the vertical entrance slit and vertical offset exit slit being positioned symmetrically about the normal of the diffraction grating. The light emitted from one of the sources is diffracted by the grating and imaged on the upper portion of the offset exit slit and the light emitted from the other source is diffracted by the grating and imaged on the lower portion of the offset exit slit. The photo detector generates an error signal, the amplitude of which is specified by the difference between the intensity of the light passed through the upper and lower portions of the offset exit slit and the optical filter. The error signal is applied to the servo amplifier having upper and lower threshold limits. The servo amplifier generates a signal which is applied to the servo motor for controlling the alignment of the diffraction grating and focal curve.
Abstract:
A multimode spectral analyzer which is capable of operating selectively as a multichannel pulse height analyzer, a multiscaler, a Mossbauer analyzer, or as a signal enchancer is provided for processing the output of radiation detectors. The multimode spectral analyzer includes a multichannel analyzer for determining the pulse amplitude range to be analyzed, an analog to digital converter for providing a series of pulses proportional to the pulse heights from the multichannel analyzer, a memory for storing the series of pulses from the analog to digital converter, and a display for presenting the information stored in the memory.