Abstract:
The present invention includes: a light supply part; an interfering light formation part; and a detection part, in which the interfering light formation part includes a fixed reflection part, a movable reflection part, and a moving part that moves and fixes the movable reflection part along a base plane, the fixed reflection part includes a first reflection surface that reflects supplied light supplied from the light supply part and a second reflection surface provided so as to be plane-symmetrical with the first reflection surface with respect to the base plane and to be orthogonal to the first reflection surface, and the movable reflection part includes a third reflection surface and a fourth reflection surface parallel to a first reflection surface and a second reflection surface of the fixed reflection part, respectively.
Abstract:
A mirror unit 2 includes a mirror device 20 including a base 21 and a movable mirror 22, an optical function member 13, and a fixed mirror 16 that is disposed on a side opposite to the mirror device 20 with respect to the optical function member 13. The mirror device 20 is provided with a light passage portion 24 that constitutes a first portion of an optical path between the beam splitter unit 3 and the fixed mirror 16. The optical function member 13 is provided with a light transmitting portion 14 that constitutes a second portion of the optical path between the beam splitter unit 3 and the fixed mirror 16. A second surface 21b of the base 21 and a third surface 13a of the optical function member 13 are joined to each other.
Abstract:
Active FTIR spectroscopy systems and methods for quantitative measurements of concentrations of chemical targets, such as gas, liquid and solid chemical targets, in an open-path measuring arrangement and a method of extracting an effective illumination spectrum of IR light illuminating chemical targets arranged in an open-path measuring arrangement.
Abstract:
A spectrometer with increased optical throughput and/or spectral resolution includes a plurality of interferometers coupled in parallel. An optical splitter divides a source light beam into a plurality of input beams and directs each of the input beams to a respective one of the plurality of interferometers. One or more detectors are optically coupled to receive a respective output from each of the plurality of interferometers and is configured to detect an interferogram produced as a result of the outputs.
Abstract:
A linear-motion stage that is angularly or radially symmetric or asymmetric, or monolithic may be used as the moving mechanism in a Fourier transform spectrometer. In embodiments, a linear-motion stage includes a base; a first multiple-arm linkage extending from the base to a first carriage attachment end; a second multiple-arm linkage extending from the first carriage attachment end to the base; a third multiple-arm linkage extending from the base to a second carriage attachment end; a carriage extending from the first carriage end to the second carriage end. Also in embodiments, the first, second, and third multiple-arm linkages comprise a first arm rotateably connected to a second arm through a flexure, the angular travel of the first arm is configured to be different than an angular travel of the second arm as the carriage moves along the carriage motion line.
Abstract:
A Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) interferometer provides for self-calibration of mirror positioning of a moveable mirror. The moveable mirror is coupled to a MEMS actuator having a variable capacitance. The MEMS interferometer includes a capacitive sensing circuit for determining the capacitance of the MEMS actuator at two or more known positions of the moveable mirror and a calibration module for using the actuator capacitances at the known positions to compensate for any drift in the capacitive sensing circuit.
Abstract:
An interferometer wherein an incident beam from a radiation source hits a beam splitter at a first oblique angle of incidence and is split into a first, reflected partial beam, and a second, transmitted partial beam, that subsequently travel along separate arms of the interferometer. The first and second partial beams are respectively intercepted, reflected, and re-split to form returning beam portions and reflected and transmitted exit beam portions. A second terminal mirror and a folding mirror, which intercepts the second partial beam at a second oblique angle of incidence, are associated with the second interferometer arm and positioned orthogonal to the reference plane and on opposite sides of the exit path, so that a section of the second partial beam from the folding mirror to the terminal mirror and back to the folding mirror crosses the exit beam twice.
Abstract:
A Fourier transform spectrometer (Da) of the invention extracts, in generating an integrated interferogram obtained by integrating a plurality of interferograms, an output of an interferometer (11a) within a predetermined range according to positioning information of a center burst in an interferogram measured at a time before measurement of an interferogram at the present time.
Abstract:
A spectrometer with improved resolution includes a spectral domain modulator having a periodic response in the spectral domain to modulate a wideband source spectrum and cause one or more shifted bursts in the interferogram.
Abstract:
An interference spectrophotometer including a movable mirror unit having a movable mirror capable of reciprocating movement; a stationary mirror; an infrared light source unit which emits an infrared light; a beam splitter; an interference light detection unit which detects light intensity information of light transmitted or reflected by a sample; a movable mirror velocity information detection unit which detects movable mirror velocity information for movable mirror; and a control unit which acquires the light intensity information and movable mirror velocity information and computes the absorption or transmission spectrum of the sample; wherein the interference spectrophotometer further comprises a storage unit which stores a target movable mirror velocity range, and control unit does not employ light intensity information obtained when the movable mirror velocity of movable mirror was outside the target movable mirror velocity range for computing the absorption or transmission spectrum of the sample.