Principles and performance of an electron spin echo spectrometer using far infrared lasers as excitation sources

We have built an electron spin echo spectrometer operating at 604 GHz, extending the frequency limit of existing spectrometers by more than a factor of 4. In order to handle this high frequency we have used optical techniques, i.e., molecular gas lasers for the excitation pulses and far infrared techniques for the heterodyne detection system. The different components of the spectrometer are described in detail and first experimental results are given.     

Effect of the size of experimental channels of the lead slowing-down spectrometer SVZ-100 (Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow) on the moderation constant

Lead slowing-down (LSD) spectrometers have a low energy resolution (about 30%), but their luminosity is 10³ to 10⁴ times higher than that of time-of-flight (TOF) spectrometers. A high luminosity of LSD spectrometers makes it possible to use them to measure neutron cross section for samples of mass about several micrograms. These features specify a niche for the application of LSD spectrometers in measuring neutron cross sections for elements hardly available in macroscopic amounts—in particular, for actinides. A mathematical simulation of the parameters of SVZ-100 LSD spectrometer of the Institute for Nuclear Research (INR, Moscow) is performed in the present study on the basis of the MCNPX code. It is found that the moderation constant, which is the main parameter of LSD spectrometers, is highly sensitive to the size and shape of detecting volumes in calculations and, hence, to the real size of experimental channels of the LSD spectrometer.     

光栅扫描光谱仪参数的研究

光栅扫描光谱仪的入射光线和出射光线的方向是固定的,在光栅转动下进行分光,这与光栅不动而入射光方向改变的分光方法不同。由光栅方程出发,计算出电脑自动控制多光栅转动的光谱仪测试系统的角色散率、线色散率和分辨本领,得出光栅扫描光谱仪的角色散率、线色散率和分辨本领等参数公式。所得结果与光栅不动而入射光方向改变的光谱仪的角色散率、线色散率和分辨本领不同。这为光栅扫描光谱仪的使用和研究提供了理论依据。     

Near shot noise detection of oxygen in the A-band with vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

A dual-beam laser absorption spectrometer with balanced detection for high sensitivity detection of oxygen via the A-band at 760 nm is described. The 2×2 vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser arrays used for this set-up are characterized by their wavelength tuning behavior with temperature and current, amplitude modulation, side-mode suppression ratio and polarization contrast. The spectrometer performance is determined over time periods of up to 10 h using the variation in the differential absorption between two beam paths. With the R11R11 line at STP, 670 μW laser power and 200 mm-long absorption cells, we realized an excellent linearity (R=0.9999) and over a 5-min interval a record sensitivity for VCSEL-based spectrometers of 35 ppmV, corresponding to an optical density (O.D.) of 7×10^-7. For this specific set-up, this sensitivity is only a factor of 2.7 above the shot noise limit, giving us a normalized detection limit of 7.6 ppmV·m·. Over a 10-h interval we achieved a standard deviation of 65 ppmV. Received: 26 July 2000 / Revised version: 1 November 2000 / Published online: 6 December 2000     

芯片级硅基光谱仪研究进展

光谱仪作为光谱分析不可或缺的工具,在生物传感、食药检测、医疗、环境监测等领域有着广泛的用途。传统的光谱仪体积大、功耗高、价格昂贵和难以二次开发,应用范围受到了极大地限制。随着微型加工工艺的发展,微型化的光谱仪逐渐出现。相较于传统的大型光谱仪,微型光谱仪不仅成本低、体积小、功耗低,而且便于二次开发,扩展了光谱仪的应用范围。但是,微型光谱仪通常是基于分立的光学器件,通过将光学器件的小型化而实现的,集成度和灵活性不高。随着对便携性的要求越来越高,光谱仪的进一步小型化和集成化已成趋势,出现了芯片级的光谱仪。芯片级光谱仪具有明显的尺寸、重量和功耗的优势,将对光谱仪在无人设备、智能平台等新兴领域中的应用产生重要影响。在芯片级光谱仪的实现过程中,硅基光子技术因其成熟的加工工艺和良好的集成性能,为光谱仪的芯片化提供了一种集成化、低成本的解决方案,国内外研究人员针对芯片级硅基光谱仪展开了大量的研究,取得了丰富的成果。文章分析了硅基片上光谱仪的工作原理,将目前的芯片级硅基光谱仪分成了色散型和傅里叶变换型两大类进行介绍,分析了这两类光谱仪的主要特点和典型实现方式。文中给出了刻蚀衍射光栅、波导阵列光栅、多模波导等色散型硅基片上光谱仪和空间外差、驻波式、热调、数字以及基于微机电系统的傅里叶变换型硅基片上光谱仪的最新研究进展,分析了各种光谱仪的性能特点和适用范围。在此基础上,展示了本组的最新研究成果,通过创造性地将基于马赫曾德尔干涉仪的空间外差傅里叶变换型光谱仪结构和波导阵列光栅的色散型光谱仪结构相结合,可同时实现较大的光谱范围和较高的光谱分辨率,为硅基片上光谱仪的应用打下了较好的基础。最后,论述了硅基片上光谱仪的发展趋势与应用前景,为芯片级硅基光谱仪的研究提供了参考。     

Frequency dependence of EPR signal-to-noise.

Direct measurements of electron spin-echo signal and noise in well-characterized X-band and S-band spectrometers agree with predictions of frequency dependence based on first principles. For the particular spectrometers compared, the echo at 9.52 GHz was 9.5 times larger than the echo at 2.68 GHz, after scaling for differences in spectrometer gain. The calculated ratio was 7.6. This result contrasts with prior predictions that the frequency dependence would be much greater.     

Optimized electron–optical system of a static mass-spectrometer for simultaneous isotopic and chemical analysis

A new approach to control the linear dimensions of analytical electrophysical systems is suggested. This approach uses the lens properties of electron–optical elements with a curvilinear axis. It is shown that such an approach can be effectively applied, in particular, to synthesize ion–optical systems (IOSs) for static magnetic mass spectrometers and can be implemented owing to off-axis fundamental points, the “poles” of an electron–optical system, introduced earlier by one of the authors. The capabilities of the new approach are demonstrated with the synthesis of the IOS of a static mass spectrometer dedicated for isotopic and chemical analysis with an increased resolution. A new IOS not only provides desired high ion–optical parameters at decreased dimensions of the mass spectrometer as a whole but also makes it possible to loosen requirements for the manufacturing accuracy of IOS main elements.     

发光二极管光谱测量中的杂散光与带宽校正

光谱仪的杂散光和带宽是LED光谱测量中比较重要的两个误差影响因素,为了得到更精确的测量结果,必须对杂散光和带宽影响进行校正.用He-Ne激光测出光谱仪的线扩展函数,在假设光谱仪是线性波长不变系统的前提下,构建杂散光分布函数矩阵,转化为杂散光校正矩阵,从而对所测信号进行杂散光校正;在三个波段内分别由光谱仪带宽函数计算带宽校正系数,将被测波长点及其邻近带宽波长点上的测量结果进行加权平均,从而得到带宽校正结果.将两种校正方法应用在一台多通道快速光谱仪上,测量各种颜色的LED,实验结果表明能有效地校正杂散光和带宽影响,色品坐标最大校正了(-0.003,0.007).且该方法降低了应用成本,在保证精度的情况下简化了计算量,使得校正更易于实施.     

计算层析成像光谱技术研究进展

从技术特点和研究热点的角度,综述了近些年来计算层析成像光谱技术的国内外进展,主要包括计算层析成像光谱仪的系统结构改进及与其他技术联用的新集成设计,新器件新设备的研发和应用,仪器定标技术和目标重建算法的优化与改进等;并按照应用范围的特点进行了分类,对在探测波段扩展和应用领域拓展等方面的应用现状进行了总结.介绍了光栅型和旋转棱镜型计算层析成像光谱技术的原理,并展望了计算层析成像光谱技术的发展趋势.     

A Fourier transform Raman spectrometer with visible laser excitation

We present the development and performance of a Fourier transformation (FT)‐based Raman spectrometer working with visible laser (532 nm) excitation. It is generally thought that FT‐Raman spectrometers are not viable in the visible range where shot noise limits the detector performance and therein they are outperformed by grating based, dispersive ones. We show that contrary to this common belief, the recent advances of high‐performance interference filters makes the FT‐Raman design a valid alternative to dispersive Raman spectrometers for samples which do not luminesce. We critically compare the performance of our spectrometer to two dispersive ones: a home‐built single channel and a state‐of‐the‐art charge coupled device‐based instruments. We demonstrate a similar or even better sensitivity than the charge coupled device‐based dispersive spectrometer particularly when the laser power density is considered. The instrument possesses all the known advantages of the FT principle of spectral accuracy, high throughput, and economic design. We also discuss the general considerations, which helps the community reassess the utility of the different Raman spectrometer designs. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

测色分光光度计的双光束分光系统设计

通常测色分光光度计均由两个独立且完全相同的分光系统组成,为实现测色分光光度计小型化、轻量化,提出一种双光束分光系统设计。将传统的分光系统进行改进,使一个分光系统实现双光束分光系统的功能,用两个小狭缝代替一个狭缝,即可实现两束光谱同时探测。分析了双光束分光系统的工作原理及设计要求,设计了一个用于便携式测色分光光度计的分光系统。设计的Czerny-Turner结构双光束分光系统采用超环面成像镜,可以较好的校正像散,防止两束光谱串扰,两束光谱在探测器上完全没有重叠,光谱分辨率小于10 nm,谱面长度9.12 mm,体积仅为57 mm×54 mm×23 mm,满足设计指标要求。通过与相同设计指标的单光束分光系统比较得出,采用双光束分光系统的改进型测色分光光度计比传统的测色分光光度计减少了一整套分光系统,从而使体积大幅缩小。该方法特别适用于便携式测色分光光度计,也可适用于其他双光束分光光度计。     

Transform spectrometer based on measuring the periodicity of Talbot self-images

We demonstrate a compact transform spectrometer based on measuring the periodicity of Talbot self-images. The system has no moving parts; it contains only a tilted absorption grating that is imaged onto a CCD camera. The linear architecture of the system makes it possible to use this design in imaging arrays of spectrometers. Unlike other transform spectrometers, its resolution is independent of wavelength.     

Compact Fourier-transform volume holographic spectrometer for diffuse source spectroscopy

We present a new idea for diffuse source spectroscopy using a Fourier-transform volume holographic spectrometer formed by a Fourier-transform lens, a volume hologram, and a CCD. We show that this spectrometer can operate well under spatially incoherent light illumination. Furthermore, this spectrometer is less bulky, less sensitive to input alignment, and potentially more appropriate for implementation of highly sensitive spectrometers than conventional spectrometers.     

Passage of ion beams through parallel grids

Analytical expressions for the mathematical expectation and dispersion of the time of flight of a nonrelativistic charged particle through a multielectrode system consisting of parallel grids are derived. These expressions can be useful in design optimization, for example, of plasma-confining grid systems and time-of-flight mass spectrometers.     

Electron volt neutron spectrometers

The advent of pulsed neutron sources has made available intense fluxes of epithermal neutrons (500 meV ≤E≤100 eV ). The possibility to open new investigations on condensed matter with eV neutron scattering techniques, is related to the development of methods, concepts and devices that drive, or are inspired by, emerging studies at this energy scale. Electron volt spectrometers have undergone continuous improvements since the construction of the first prototype instruments, but in the last decade major breakthroughs have been accomplished in terms of resolution and counting statistics, leading, for example, to the direct measurement of the proton 3-D Born–Oppenheimer potential in any material, or to quantitatively probe nuclear quantum effects in hydrogen bonded systems. This paper reports on the most effective methods and concepts for energy analysis and detection, as well as devices for the optimization of electron volt spectrometers for different applications. This is set in the context of the progress made up to date in instrument development. Starting from early stages of development of the technique, particular emphasis will be given to the Vesuvio eV spectrometer at the ISIS neutron source, the first spectrometer where extensive scientific, as well as research and development programmes have been carried out. The potential offered by this type of instrumentation, from single particle excitations to momentum distribution studies, is then put in perspective into the emerging fields of eV spectroscopy applied to cultural heritages and neutron irradiation effects in electronics.     

宽光谱Czerny-Turner光谱仪中的彗差与分辨率

小型光谱仪较多地采用Czerny-Turner(切尼—特纳)光路结构,其设计应遵循Shafer消彗差原理消除中心波长处的初级彗差并尽量平直整个谱面以提高分辨率。但常规设计并未考虑非中心波长处彗差和分辨率的变化情况。在对两种典型切尼—特纳光路结构进行初级彗差分析的基础上,指出交叉型光路结构宽光谱范围内的分辨率呈“V”形,而M型光路结构分辨率在全光谱范围内变化较小,近似呈“一”形,即后者宽光谱范围内的分辨率一致性远好于前者。针对于此,该文设计了光谱范围为400～600 nm的2种光路,并对其进行了理论计算和对比实验,实验结果表明,两者边缘波长处分辨率分别比中心波长处分辨率低3.7倍和1.2倍,与理论计算结果基本一致。     

Performance of 20 Ci137Cs γ-ray Compton spectrometer for the study of momentum densities

In this paper, we present the design and construction of a 20 Ci γ-ray Compton spectrometer that employs a¹³⁷ Cs source with a strong line at 661.65 keV. The total resolution of the spectrometer in momentum scale is 0.40 a.u., which is much better than the conventional²⁴¹Am Compton spectrometers. The in-house¹³⁷Cs spectrometer is very useful for the measurement of momentum densities of heavy materials. The performance of the machine is assessed using aluminum, terbium and mercury samples and the experimental data from comparable apparatus.     

Multifunctional synchrotron spectrometer of the National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”: I. EXAFS in dispersive mode

The improved X-ray optical scheme, the system of registration, and the measurement procedure of the multifunctional synchrotron radiation spectrometer in the dispersive EXAFS mode are described. The results of the spectrometer energy resolution measurements are given. The advantages and disadvantages of traditional and dispersive EXAFS spectrometers are analyzed. Examples of EXAFS spectra measured in the dispersive mode are given.     

基于PC机的脉冲序列发生器

为了降低谱仪的复杂性和成本，文中提出了基于PC机的脉冲序列发生器设计方案. 详细讨论了在Windows 98和Windows XP下通过关中断的方法来保证脉冲序列时序的精度和稳定性，通过实验给出了基于PC机的脉冲序列发生器的短期稳定度和长期稳定度，最后通过自旋回波实验直接验证了该方案的可行性.     

平场全息凹面光栅制作结构与使用结构之间误差补偿作用的数值模拟与实验验证

通过对优化计算出的平场全息凹面光栅制作结构(曝光记录结构)和使用结构(光谱仪分光结构)之间各个参数进行联合数值模拟,得出如下结论：在优化设计参数值附近一个较大范围的误差区域内,平场全息凹面光栅的制作结构参数误 差和使用结构参数误差可以相互补偿,最终补偿的结果可以使光谱成像质量达到与原设计结构相当的水平,满足光谱仪器的使用要求。文章给出了数值模拟结果以及与其相符的实验验证结果。此补偿作用有利于降低平场全息凹面光栅制作 中各个参数精度的调节难度,并且可以对实际使用过程中光谱仪器的设计和装调进行理论上的指导。