Abstract:
A wavelength division multiplexed device is based on a transmission grating spectrometer having at least two diffractive optical elements. The WDM device provides flexible use and may be widely applied in WDM systems. The device is useful for multiplexing and demultiplexing, channel monitoring, for adding and dropping channels, and for controlling the power in individual channels within a multiple channel signal. The device provides for dynamic control of individual channels, and may be advantageous in use as a gain flattening filter.
Abstract:
A high resolution spectral measurement device. A preferred embodiment presents an extremely narrow slit function in the ultraviolet range and is very useful for measuring bandwidth of narrow-band excimer lasers used for integrated circuit lithography. Light from the laser is focused into a diffuser and the diffused light exiting the diffuser illuminates an etalon. A portion of its light exiting the etalon is collected and directed into a slit positioned at a fringe pattern of the etalon. Light passing through the slit is collimated and the collimated light illuminates a grating positioned in an approximately Littrow configuration which disburses the light according to wavelength. A portion of the dispursed light representing the wavelength corresponding to the selected etalon fringe is passed through a second slit and monitored by a light detector. When the etalon and the grating are tuned to the same precise wavelength a slit function is defined which is extremely narrow such as about 0.034 pm (FWHM) and about 0.091 pm (95 percent integral). The bandwidth of a laser beam can be measured very accurately by a directing portion of the laser beam into the insulator and scanning the laser wavelength over a range which includes the monochromator slit wavelength. In a second embodiment the second slit and the light detector is replaced by a photodiod array and the bandwidth of a laser beam is determined by analyzing a set of scan data from the photodiode array. Alternately, the laser wavelength can be fixed near the middle of the spectrum range of the grating spectrometer, and the etalon can be scanned.
Abstract:
Multiplexed grating and grating/prism devices are particularly suited to DWDM optical telecommunications networks, finding utility in optical spectrum analyzers (OSAs) and fiber multiplexer/demultiplexers. The invention may be used to address both single- and dual-band configurations through adjustment of the grating, detector array, and/or inclusion of a fiber-optic switch. As a dual-band OSA covering the C- and L-bands, a device according to the invention may be used to replace two separate OSAs like those currently in production, at only a modest increase in cost relative to a single-band OSA.
Abstract:
In a four-stage type monochromator, there is provided a returning reflector 6 for making the dispersing direction of the wavelength of light 13e and 13h incident on and emergent from a plane diffraction grating 4 is reversed before and after its reflection. Angles of incident and emergent light at a time when the light is spectrally separated by the diffraction grating 4 are made identical.
Abstract:
The invention discloses an apparatus for compensation for spectral fluctuation of a light source. Additionally the invention discloses a scanner incorporating the apparatus for compensation. A lamp generates light, which is sent into a light directing device. From the light directing device a sensor means and a spectral monitor means for determining the spectral content of the light from said lamp receive the light. A signal processing means receives the output from said spectral monitor means and said sensor means for producing a signal compensated for spectral fluctuations. A scanner, incorporating the inventive apparatus, additionally comprises a medium for scanning which is positioned between said sensor means and said light directing device and a lens is positioned between said medium for scanning and said sensor means, for imaging said medium onto said sensor means.
Abstract:
An analytical system uses a waveguide having embedded Bragg gratings to redirect light from the waveguide outwardly for analytical determination by detectors. The analytical system can be a spectrophotometer, spectrofluorimeter, or other means for analyzing the components of light passed through a sample or emanating from a sample. The system can be single or multi-channeled and can be integrated with a detector onto a single chip device. A manifold with multiple input waveguides and multiple output waveguides is also provided. The interaction point between the input and output waveguides is a target area in which a sample capillary tube can be located.
Abstract:
Incoming light is reflected by a first parabolic mirror for incidence as parallel rays of light on a diffraction grating, the reflected light therefrom is incident on a second parabolic mirror, and the reflected light therefrom is bent by first and second reflecting mirror in a vertical direction and reflected back to the second parabolic mirror, from which it is reflected to the diffraction grating. The reflected light from the grating is reflected again by the first parabolic mirror for incidence on a photodetector. An optical glass plate is inserted in the optical path between the second reflecting mirror and the second parabolic mirror. By the passage through the optical glass plate, the optical axis in a horizontal plane is displaced to ensure the incidence of light from the first parabolic mirror on the photodetector regardless of the wavelength of the incoming light to be measured.
Abstract:
A spectrophotometer of the type using a pulse motor to rotate a diffraction grating through a speed reducing mechanism has a capability of constructing a conversion table according to a program, by which table a rotation amount of the motor is converted to a corresponding wavelength of output light from a monochromator. The spectrophotometer is capable of designating a calibration mode in which an emission peak at a known wavelength of light from a light source is detected, a coefficient in a conversion equation is determined on the basis of the known wavelength of the emission peak and a rotation amount of the motor at a time when the emission peak is detected, and the determined coefficient is used to construct the conversion table which is then stored in a nonvolatile memory. In an analysis mode, a rotation amount of the motor is converted to a corresponding wavelength in accordance with the conversion table in the nonvolatile memory.
Abstract:
A solid monolithic spectrograph utilizes the Czerny-Turner geometric confration. It has a base constructed of BK7 optical glass to which all components are affixed with optical epoxy. The compact spectrograph operates in the visible spectrum in second order thereby permitting it to be smaller by a factor of two than if it operated in first order. The spectrograph is programmable and is capable of simultaneous multi-channel measurements of wavelengths and bandwidths of sources in the visible and near infrared spectral regions.
Abstract:
An optical system and method comprising a diffraction grating which consists of diffracting elements spaced from one another by unequal distances. Correction of residual defocusing in the image produced by such a grating is accomplished by translating it along its surface. As one embodiment, a monochromator is constructed on which a self-focusing grating scans the value in wavelength which is transmitted between fixed slits by rotation of the grating about an axis fixed in space. Combined with a translation of the grating along its surface, such a monochromator produces a symmetrical image exactly in focus at the exit slit for all scanned wavelengths.