摘要:
A high frequency energy pulsing system suitable for use in a pulsed microwave spectrometer (10), including means (11, 19) for generating a high frequency carrier signal, and means (12) for generating a low frequency modulating signal. The carrier signal is continuously fed to a modulator (20) and the modulating signal is fed through a pulse switch (23) to the modulator. When the pulse switch (23) is on, the modulator (20) will produce sideband signals above and below the carrier signal frequency. A frequency-responsive device (31) is tuned to one of the sideband signals and away from the carrier frequency so that the high frequency energization of the frequency-responsive device (31) is controlled by the pulse switch (23).
摘要:
Broadband RF excitation for a Fourier transform spectrometer is obtained by synthesizing the time domain excitation from the desired frequency spectrum of RF excitation. Means are provided to Fourier transform the desired spectral data from the frequency domain into the time domain to obtain a modulation output for modulating an RF carrier signal to generate the desired sideband of RF excitation. In a preferred embodiment, the desired frequency domain data, as tabled in the computer, has a pseudorandom phase shift added to each component for scrambling the phases of the RF excitation. The excited RF resonance signals in the time domain are detected, time-averaged, Fourier transformed to the frequency domain and, in the case of phase scrambling, unscrambled by the pseudorandom phase angle sequence, and displayed.
摘要:
An EPR spectrometer resonant cavity having an aperture for sample introduction that is typically a rectangular or cylindrical pipe. The pipe is dimensioned so that it can be considered a waveguide which is not beyond cutoff. The aperture and pipe are precisely placed on the cavity wall so that, due to symmetry, the lowest frequency propagation mode is not excited. At the end of the pipe removed from the cavity a conveniently removable second rectangular or cylindrical pipe is provided which is coaxial with the first pipe. The second pipe is smaller than the first pipe and is dimensioned to be beyond cutoff for all propagation modes so as to enable convenient introduction of large and small samples without any disturbance of a permanent wall of the cavity and with virtually no radiation losses during operation.
摘要:
A receiver circuit for a nuclear magnetic resonance analyser includes a resonance circuit and an amplifier circuit. The resonance circuit includes a receiving coil for detecting nuclear magnetic resonance signals of two different frequencies and a crystal resonator connected in series with the receiving coil. The crystal resonator being chosen so that it is substantially inductive at the lower of the two frequencies and is substantially capacitive at the higher of the two frequencies. The output impedance of the resonance circuit is matched to the input impedance of an amplifier circuit to which it is attached at the two different frequencies. By use of this circuit signals of the two different frequencies may be amplified by a single amplifier.
摘要:
A magnetic resonance spectrometer, for example a pulse modulated Fourier transform spectrometer system, wherein the carrier frequency is positioned on an undesired output resonance line, the receiver circuitry of the system including a quadrature phase detection stage in which the resonance lines falling on the positive and negative frequency side of the zero frequency position in the output spectrum corresponding to the carrier frequency component may be distinguished, the receiver circuitry including a high pass filter positioned between the quadrature phase detector stage and the analog to digital converter for removing all frequency components near the zero component from the signal transmitted to the analog to digital converter, whereby the strong undesired resonance line is eliminated from the output spectrum.
摘要:
In the excitation of spin resonances by means of an RF-pulse in a sample arranged in a homogeneous magnetic field for purposes of spin resonance spectrometry, a limitation of the energy of excitation to the frequency range of interest and an essentially constant amplitude of the energy of excitation in that range of frequency is achieved by application of an RF-pulse with an amplitude variable in time which, at least approximately, corresponds to a sine x/x function. Such amplitude function can be generated by a modulation unit which is controlled either by a digital computer with a stored amplitude function or by the output signal of an analog computer solving a suitable differential equation.
摘要:
A pulsed VHF radio spectrometer for the invenstigation of nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) in solids, in which the tuning arrangements of the anode and grid tanks in a double-tank r.f. pulse oscillator are kinematically linked to each other and to the tuning arrangement of the tuned circuit of a local oscillator by means of a drive having a programmer. The latter is made such that the grid tank in the r.f. pulse oscillator and the localoscillator tuned circuit are swept in frequency in a predetermined manner. The radio spectrometer disclosed herein has an inductance coil to enclose the solid test specimen, which is electrically connected to the r.f. pulse oscillator through a matching means which matches the impedance of the inductance coil to the impedance of the anode tank in the r.f. pulse oscillator. The circuit parameters of the matching means and the circuit parameters of the inductance coil determine the above-mentioned manner for frequency sweeping.
摘要:
A method and apparatus are described for performing time shared spin resonance analyses. A sideband of a pulse modulated RF signal is used to excite the spins of a sample, and the signals received from the excited spins are heterodyned with the carrier frequency of the pulse modulated RF signal. The heterodyned signal is detected by mixing it with a signal having a frequency equal to the product of the pulse repetition rate and the ordinal number of the sideband used to excite the spins. The frequency of the sideband used to excite the spins of the sample is swept through a range of frequencies simply by varying the pulse repetition rate. During such variations in the pulse repetition rate, the amplitude of the sideband signal is kept constant by varying the pulse duration or the amplitude of the carrier frequency signal. Apparatus for carrying out the method is described.
摘要:
In the use of spectrometric apparatus incorporating a resonant circuit an artificial signal is generated for checking, calibration or measurement purposes. The artificial signal is generated by periodically switching a resistance into and out of circuit with the resonant circuit, preferably also biasing out the normal resonance signals. It is particularly applicable to the monitoring of on-line flow systems.
摘要:
A method and apparatus are described for performing pulsed double resonance analyses such as selective saturation and homonuclear decoupling. The method comprises exciting the spins of a spin system in a sample with a series of RF pulses, exciting selected spins of the spin system with an RF signal having frequency components at approximately the Larmor (or resonance) frequencies of the selected spins, receiving the resultant free precession decay signals (or interferograms) of the resonant frequencies generated by the excitations, averaging a plurality of the free precession decay signals, and Fourier analyzing the mean value of the free precession decay signals to determine the spectral response. The excited spin system may be the set of spins associated with one type of nuclei in a sample. Apparatus for carrying out the method includes an RF generator and RF gate for producing a series of RF pulses to excite all the spins of the spin system, and at least one additional RF generator and RF gate for producing an RF oscillation to selectively excite only certain spins of the spin system.