Light absorption analyser
First Claim
1. A light absorption analyser comprising:
- a bodya probe heada flash tube in said body and actuatable to emit output pulses of lightspectrophotometric means in said body for receiving light from said flash tube,said spectrophotometric means includinga) an interference filter for passing only light of a predetermined frequency in a given direction andb) a doubly concave parabolic mirror for receiving said light in said given direction and focusing said light to a point in said body, andcollector means at said point, said collector means including at least one fibre-optic output light conductor,said light conductor being for conducting said collected light to said probe head from said body.
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Abstract
A light absorption analyzer can work in either a reflection or a transmission mode, according to which probe head is fitted to it.
Light is caused to be of a desired wavelength for the analysis by passing non-monochromatic light from a high-intensity flash tube source (which is not a point source) to an interference filter. Only parallel light emanating from the filter is focused by a concave parabolic mirror on a point where at least one fibre-optic collector is positioned. This light can then be passed directly to the probe for passage through the sample, since it is only light of a specified wavelength which will have travelled parallel from the filter and will therefore be focused at the point. Some of the light is taken off a reference detector to provide a reference signal for comparison with that derived from a test detetor fed by a return fibre-optic from the probe. A comparator is programmed to give a quantitiative readout of the absorption by the test sample.
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10 Claims
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1. A light absorption analyser comprising:
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a body a probe head a flash tube in said body and actuatable to emit output pulses of light spectrophotometric means in said body for receiving light from said flash tube, said spectrophotometric means including a) an interference filter for passing only light of a predetermined frequency in a given direction and b) a doubly concave parabolic mirror for receiving said light in said given direction and focusing said light to a point in said body, and collector means at said point, said collector means including at least one fibre-optic output light conductor, said light conductor being for conducting said collected light to said probe head from said body. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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- 6. In a light absorption analyser for examining a sample by exposing said sample to light of a predetermined wavelength, the improved spectrophotometric arrangement comprising, in combination, a flash tube constituting an extended source of non-monochromatic light for radiating said non-monochromatic light in random directions, an optical device having an extended surface exposed to light form substantially the entire extended source, with said non-monochromatic light from different parts of said extended source being incident in a predetermined direction at correspondingly different points of said extended surface, said device for causing light of only a predetermined wavelength and incident of said extended surface only in said predetermined direction to proceed from said device in a given direction in space, and a parabolic mirror positioned to receive, and focus at a given position, the light of said predetermined wavelength proceeding from said optical device in said given direction, said light focused at said given position being for use in said examination.
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