Imaging FTIR spectrometer
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1. An infrared spectrometer comprising:
- a housing;
an optical light source;
an interferometer disposed within said housing to divide input light emitted by said light source into two partial beams for generating a variable optical path length difference between said two partial beams and to recombine said two partial beams into one output light beam;
means for positioning and accepting a sample in or on said housing, said output light beam being incident on the sample;
an imaging, two dimensional detector array for accepting and analyzing a detector light beam emanating from the sample;
imaging optics disposed for imaging a sample surface, using said detector light beam emanating from the sample, onto said imaging, two dimensional detector array; and
means communicating with an output of said detector to process sample signals.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an imaging FTIR spectrometer comprising a housing with an integrated interferometer, sample and detector. The light of the source first passes through the interferometer, then it is focused on the sample which is imaged on the surface of a detector array. The present invention also provides an FTIR spectrometer with a detector array and ADCs integrated on the detector array chip such that each pixel has an individual dedicated ADC.
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1. An infrared spectrometer comprising:
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a housing;
an optical light source;
an interferometer disposed within said housing to divide input light emitted by said light source into two partial beams for generating a variable optical path length difference between said two partial beams and to recombine said two partial beams into one output light beam;
means for positioning and accepting a sample in or on said housing, said output light beam being incident on the sample;
an imaging, two dimensional detector array for accepting and analyzing a detector light beam emanating from the sample;
imaging optics disposed for imaging a sample surface, using said detector light beam emanating from the sample, onto said imaging, two dimensional detector array; and
means communicating with an output of said detector to process sample signals. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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