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Yuzawa T, Kate C, George M W and Hamaguchi H O 1994 Nanosecond time-resolved infrared spectroscopy with a dispersive scanning spectrometer Appl. Spectrosc. 48 684-90... 

Snively, C.M., Katzenberger, S., Oskarsdottir, G. et al. (1999) Fourier-transform infrared imaging using a rapid-scan spectrometer. Opt. Lett., 24, 1841. 

A modern variation on the rapid scan spectrometer, which is under development, uses a laser-generated plasma as a high intensity broad-band IR source (65). This method has been used to probe the vc—o absorption of W(CO)6. Another technique TRISP (time-resolved IR spectral photography), which involves up-conversion of IR radiation to the visible, has also been used to probe transients (66). This method has the enormous advantage that efficient phototubes and photodiodes can be used as detectors. However, it is a technically challenging procedure with limitations on the frequency range which depend on the optical material used as an up-converter. 

Both Porter s original flash photolysis apparatus and Pimentel s rapid scan spectrometer recorded the whole spectral region in a time which was short compared to the decay of the transient species. Kinetic information was obtained by repeatedly firing the photolytic flash lamp and making each spectroscopic measurement at a different time delay after each flash. The decay rate could then be extracted from this series of delayed spectra. Such a process clearly has limitations, particularly for IR measurements, where the decay must be slow compared to the scan rate of the spectrum. 

In order to observe a short-lived species it may be necessary to employ a rapid-scanning spectrometer, such as a diode-array instrument (Sms for a 240nm-800nm spectrum). In addition, the absorbances of electrogenerated species can be very small and signal-averaging or phase-sensitive detection may be necessary to achieve the required signal-to-noise ratio (cf. EMIRS and FTIR). 

For visual observation of the cell interior through the sapphire windows a lamp mounted behind one end is used. A mirror and stereo microscope at the other end facilitate the observation. The microscope is equipped with a normal camera or a video camera. Normally the phenomena within the cell are continuously observed and controlled with video camera and colour monitor. A video recorder serves for documentation, for inspection of short time processes and for the production of standing flame pictures for size and shape determination. Instead of the microscope a Jarrell-Ash diode array rapid scan spectrometer can be attached to the cell to obtain flame spectra in the visible and UV-regions. 

Application of nLFP techniques in the IR region has been available for well over a decade. In one approach, laser diodes are used to generate the monitoring beam and a fast IR detector employed. Alternatively, a step-scan spectrometer uses the same methodologies employed by normal Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometers, but spectral capture is much faster. 

Studies by Crawford Rotenberg (Ref 4) who used a rapid-scan spectrometer in conjunction with a strand burning apparatus to examine NG-NC low temperature decomposition and flames. During the decomposition of commercial double-base propellants, the gas products were NO, N20, C02 CO. When these propellants were burned under 100-150 psi nitrogen pressure at a linear velocity of 100 cm/sec, C02 CO absorption bands appeared even at 2 cm away from the burning surface. Nitric oxide was barely detectable and N20 was completely absent... 

If we have a single-beam spectrometer, we may separately record spectra Bm(x), Um(x), and Z>M(x) and apply Eq. (45) later in the computer. With special rapid-scanning spectrometers this approach may be practical, but... 

Blass (1976a) and Blass and Halsey (1981) discuss data acquisition for a continuous scanning spectrometer in detail. The principal concept is that as a system scans a spectral line at some rate, the resulting time-varying signal will have a distribution of frequency components in the Fourier domain. 

FT Spectrometers FT spectrometers (Figure 3) differ from scanning spectrometers by the fact that the recorded signal is an interferogram [14] (see Chapter 6.2). They can be coupled to a microscope or macrochamber with an FPA detector. FT chemical imaging systems (CISs) are available for Raman, NIR, and IR spectroscopy. However, they can only be considered as research instruments. For example, most IR imaging systems are FT spectrometers coupled to microscopes. This type of spectrometer allows the acquisition of spectra in reflection, attenuated total reflection (ATR), or transmission mode. 

The components of a single or double beam scanning spectrometer are shown schematically in Fig. 10.9a and b. 

Fourier transform infrared spectrometers first appeared in the 1970s. These single beam instruments, which differ from scanning spectrometers, have an interferometer of the Michelson type placed between the source and the sample, replacing the monochromator (Figs 10.9c and 10.11). 

The transparency of the electrode also enables spectra to be recorded of electrogenerated species as well as of any species produced as a result of a homogeneous chemical reaction. Such spectra have been recorded with rapid scanning spectrometers that are capable of recording as many as 100 or more spectra per second in the UV-visible range [22]. Spectra can be useful for structural identification of intermediate components in the reaction sequence and for... 

Transient absorption spectroscopy, wherein one measures the electronic absorption spectrum of a molecule in an excited state, is still in its infancy, but the growing availability of ultra-high-speed, rapid-scan spectrometers augurs well for this area of spectroscopy. Thus one may, in the future, routinely probe excited state absorption spectra as well as ground state absorption spectra. The former can be expected to be as valuable in obtaining information about the excited state as is the latter for the ground state. 

Measurements impossible to perform with a singlechannel, scanning spectrometer... 

These tubes have been employed with both one- and two-dimensional dispersive systems. For example, Harber and Sonnek (43) described an electronic scanning spectrometer based on an image-dissector photomultiplier in conjunction with a onedimensional dispersive system. Their system used a 12.7 cm Czerny-Turner mount with a reciprocal linear dispersion of... 

All that is needed to make such a detector into a MULT1-WAVELENGTH/RAPID SCANNING spectrometer for liquid chromatographic purposes is to disperse the light exiting from an LC cell onto the surface of the photodiode array by means of a monochromater. 

ICP-OES is an analytical system that can do simultaneous or sequential determination of up to 50 elements at all concentration levels with a high degree of accuracy and precision. Excellent vaporization-atomization-excitation-ionization is obtained with an argon-supported ICP operated at atmospheric pressure. The emitted spectra is observed with a polychromator or a scanning spectrometer may be used depending on whether simultaneous or sequential determinations are desired. This atomization-excitation process does not exhibit interelenent effects often seen in AAS, and ppb range detection is routine. Effective nebulization of samples needs to be improved on however, ICP and direct-current (DC) plasmas are extremely effective atomization sources that provide the most effective instrumental technique for simultaneous elemental analysis. 

Spectrometers can be devided into two groups (a) scanning spectrometers, where the frequency (wavelength) of the radiation is continuously scanned and the radiation is simultaneously measured, and (b) Fourier spectrometer, where all frequencies (wavelengths) are modulated by an interferometer, and simultaneously detected. The interferogram is Fourier transformed to generate the spectrum. Scanning spectrometers are usually... 

The macromode spectra described here are acquired with an Instruments SA Jobin Yvon Ramanor HG.2S system. Sample excitation is done with either argon or krypton ion lasers. This scanning spectrometer has a thermoelectrically cooled PMT detector and is fitted with a modified Nachet 400 microscope accessory for Raman microprobe work. The microprobe is capable of providing information from domains as small as 1 // in diameter. 

Spectra of intermediates can also be obtained using rapid scanning spectrometers after a potential step (Strojek et al., 1969). 

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