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Spectroscopic measurement device and spectroscopic measurement method

US8988689B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 6, 2011
Grant dateMar 24, 2015
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Expiry dateOct 12, 2031

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  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA61B2562/0233
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Multiple rays such as scattered lights and fluorescent lights emitted radially in a variety of directions from each bright point in a measurement area enter an objective lens, where the multiple rays are converted into a parallel beam. The parallel beam is reflected by both a reference mirror unit and an oblique mirror unit, and the reflected beams pass through an imaging lens to form an interference image on a light-receiving surface of a detection unit. The detection of the light intensity of the interference image on the light-receiving surface enables an acquisition of the interferogram (the waveform of the change of imaging intensity) in which the light intensity continuously changes. By Fourier-converting the interferogram, spectral characteristics can be obtained which show the relative intensities for each wavelength of the lights emitted from one bright point of an object to be measured.

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