Bandpasses

Figure C 1.5.6. Single Ag nanoparticles imaged with evanescent-wave excitation. (A) Unfiltered photograph showing scattered laser light (514.5 nm) from Ag particles immobilized on a polylysine-coated surface. (B) Bandpass filtered (540-580 nm) photograph taken from a blank Ag colloid sample incubated witli 1 mM NaCl and...

Band of radiation exiting wavelength selector showing the nominal wavelength and effective bandpass. 

Effect of the monochromator s slit width on noise and resolution for the ultraviolet absorption spectrum of benzene. The slit width increases from spectrum (a) to spectrum (d) with effective bandpasses of 0.25 nm, 1.0 nm, 2.0 nm, and 4.0 nm. 

Acousto-optic Filters. The newest type of spectrometer to become commercially available is the acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF). An AOTF is a sohd-state, electronically tunable bandpass filter based on the diffraction of optical waves by acoustic waves in an optically anisotropic crystal. 

A computer-controlled bandpass filter system controls the size of the acquired spectral window. Typically, this is set to about 120% of the desired sweep width. Only frequencies within these limits are allowed to reach the ADC. Those frequencies outside the limits would only contribute to the noise in the final spectmm. The need for this system is dictated by the nonselective nature of the excitation rf pulse. 

Lasers can be coupled efficiently to fiber optic devices to deHver intense monochromatic light precisely to the desired region of the body, including internal organs (see Fiber optics). As in other cases of laser-induced photochemistry, biphotonic effects may be important (87). Lasers also offer the advantage of being able to concentrate the incident energy in a spectral bandpass matched to the absorption band of the sensitizer. 

Finally, instmmental broadening results from resolution limitations of the equipment. Resolution is often expressed as resolving power, v/Av, where Av is the probe linewidth or instmmental bandpass at frequency V. Unless Av is significantly smaller than the spectral width of the transition, the observed line is broadened, and its shape is the convolution of the instrumental line shape (apparatus function) and the tme transition profile. 

If it is necessary for engineering purposes to know the tonal make-up of a noise, several approaches are possible. A bandpass filter can process the noise. The most common filters are octave band filters, and the agreed center frequencies are as follows ... 

A detachable monochromator (19) developed by Spex Industries, was another approach in minimizing stray light. It is a modified Czerny-Turner spectrograph which can be coupled to the exit slit of a double monochromator and function as a variable bandpass, variable frequency filter. This accessory, while providing the versatility of a triple monochromator, does not add much mechanical and optical complexity and can be removed when not wanted. 

Figure 2. The fluorescence intensity of PuF Cg) excited at 1064 nm is shown as a function of the energy of the emitted photons. The spectral bandpass and intensity uncertainty are indicated. To within experimental error, the same emission spectrum is found when 532 nm excitation is used.

Infrared optics is a fast growing area in which CVD plays a maj or role, particularly in the manufacture of optical IR windows. 1 The earths atmosphere absorbs much of the infrared radiation but possesses three important bandpasses (wavelengths where the transmission is high) at 1-3 im, 3-5 im and 8-17 pm. As shown in Table 16.2, only three materials can transmit in all these three bandpasses single crystal diamond, germanium, and zinc selenide. 

Infrared detectors can be made with several layer AR coatings, and the detectors for the James Webb Space Telescope, awarded to Rockwell Scientific, specify 4- or 5-layer coatings to achieve QE of 95% over a broad bandpass. 

In comparison to infrared detectors, it is much more difficult for silicon-based optical detectors to achieve high QE over a wide bandpass. The main challenge is the tremendous variation of absorption depth shown in Fig. 8. In addition, the index of refraction varies significantly for A = 0.32-1.1 m, as shown in Fig. 10, making it difficult to optimize anti-reflection coatings for broad bandpass. 

Figure 10. Index of refraction of silicon. The factor of 2 difference of the index of refraction for 0.32-1.1 p,m makes broad bandpass AR coatings difficult to optimize.

Boron implant with laser anneal. Boron atoms are accelerated into the backside of the CCD, replacing about 1 of 10,000 silicon atoms with a boron atom. The boron atoms create a net negative charge that push photoelectrons to the front surface. However, the boron implant creates defects in the lattice structure, so a laser is used to melt a thin layer (100 nm) of the silicon. As the silicon resolidihes, the crystal structure returns with some boron atoms in place of silicon atoms. This works well, except for blue/UV photons whose penetration depth is shorter than the depth of the boron implant. Variations in implant depth cause spatial QE variations, which can be seen in narrow bandpass, blue/UV, flat fields. This process is used by E2V, MIT/LL and Samoff. 

Figure 21. Noise spectrum of detector amplifiers. Note that both axes have logarithmic scale. There are two main components of noise - the white noise which is present at all frequencies, and the 1// noise that is dominant at low frequencies. 1// noise has a fractal structure and is seen in many physical systems. The bandpass of a measurement decreases for slower readout, and the readout noise will correspondingly decrease. A limit to reduction in readout noise is reached at the knee of the noise spectrum (where white noise equals l/f noise) - reading slower than the frequency knee will not decrease readout noise.

It should be noted that when we compare the brightness of a LGS to a NGS, the result depends on the spectral bandwidth, because the LGS is a line source, whereas the NGS is a continuum one. The magnitude scale is a logarithmic measure of flux per spectral interval (see Ch. 15). This means that a (flat) continuum source has a fixed magnitude, no matter how wide the filter is. In contrast, the magnitude of a line source is smaller for narrower bandpasses. It is therefore advisable to use the equivalent magnitude only for qualitative arguments. The photon flux should be used in careful system analyses. 

Intracellular ethyl)-5(and-6)-car-boxyfluorescein. Quin 2 340 490 Corning 3-70. Corion 4900 bandpass (14) ... 

Quin-2 and PHPA are the only combination we have foimd that allows us to look at Ca and oxidant production simultaneously. For this experiment, Quin-2 is detected at 490 nm through a bandpass filter and PHPA is monitored at 400 nm through the monochromator. Under... 

For ease of use and wavelength accuracies of 1-2 nm, organic materials or inorganic ions in solution have been recommended as standards (Table II). However, these must be used carefully because (a) the peak maxima are matrix dependent, (b) narrow Instrumental bandpasses are necessary, (c) impurities may affect peak location, and (d) the peak wavelength values have generally not been certified (11). 

Flit) is called the scaled signal and is derived from the filtering of FqU) with the lowpass scaling function. It represents a smoother version of FqU). Diit) is called the detail signal and is derived from the filtering of FqU) with the bandpass wavelet functions. It represents the information that was filtered out of FqU) in producing Fiit). 

Another restriction we may often wish to place on the laser pulse is to limit the frequency range of the electric held in the pulse. One method that has been used to accomphsh this is simply to eliminate frequency components of the held that lie outside a specihed range [63]. Another possibility is to use a frequency hlter, such as the twentieth-order Butterworth bandpass hlter [64], which is a smoother way of imposing basically the same restrictions [41, 42]. In order to impose such restrictions on the frequency content of the pulse, the time-dependent electric held of the laser pulse must be Fourier transformed so as to obtain its frequency spectrum. After the frequency spectrum of the laser pulse has been passed through the hlter, it is back transformed to yield back a... 

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