Spectral resolution measurements

The UV visible measurements are performed using a commercial HR 2000 high-resolution fibre optic Ocean Optics spectrophotometer equipped with a halogen light source HL2000. The detector is a linear silicon CCD array. The spectral resolution measured with a Hg-Ar calibration lamp is better than 0.2 nm. 

The motivation of that effort is to improve spatial resolution, spectral resolution, measurement accuracy and sensitivity. Also of great interest is the implementation of single shot multiplex spectroscopy for turbulent combustion diagnostics. The CARS spectrometer consists in a portable, lightweight source assembly developed jointly with Quantel and in detection kits which can be adapted to various experimental problems. The source assembly comprises a frequency-doubled yag laser and a tunable dye laser space is provided on the optical table for various beam handling and combining optics ( 1 ). ... 

Used in combination, all the spectral resolution measures provide a valuable tool for the analysis of process dynamics. 

These are applicable to the 10 cm spectral resolution measurements obtained by the Thermal Emission Spectrometer carried on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft (Christensen et al., 1998), and points on both sides of the 15 pun CO2 band are included. Rapid calculation of atmospheric transmittances is required for temperature retrieval from a large volume of spacecraftmeasurements, and the A -distribution method is used (Goody Yung, 1989). 

Light sources can either be broadband, such as a Globar, a Nemst glower, an incandescent wire or mercury arc lamp or they can be tunable, such as a laser or optical parametric oscillator (OPO). In the fomier case, a monocln-omator is needed to achieve spectral resolution. In the case of a tunable light source, the spectral resolution is detemiined by the linewidth of the source itself In either case, the spectral coverage of the light source imposes limits on the vibrational frequencies that can be measured. Of course, limitations on the dispersing element and detector also affect the overall spectral response of the spectrometer. 

Figure 5 Comparison of spectral profiles measured from a specimen of NiO using EDS and EELS. Shown are the oxygen K- and nickel L-shell signals. Note the difference in the spectral shape and peak positions, as well as the energy resolution of the two spectroscopies.

For large molecules, at least, Raman spectra contain numerous bands which cannot always completely he assigned to particular vibrational modes. The large number of bands can, however, when measured with appropriate spectral resolution, enable unambiguous identification of substances by comparing the spectral pattern ("fingerprint") with those of reference spectra, if they are available. 

In Raman measurements [57], the 514-nm line of an Ar+ laser, the 325-nm line of a He-Cd laser, and the 244-nm line of an intracavity frequency-doubled Ar+ laser were employed. The incident laser beam was directed onto the sample surface under the back-scattering geometry, and the samples were kept at room temperature. In the 514-nm excitation, the scattered light was collected and dispersed in a SPEX 1403 double monochromator and detected with a photomultiplier. The laser output power was 300 mW. In the 325- and 244-nm excitations, the scattered light was collected with fused silica optics and was analyzed with a UV-enhanced CCD camera, using a Renishaw micro-Raman system 1000 spectrometer modified for use at 325 and 244 nm, respectively. A laser output of 10 mW was used, which resulted in an incident power at the sample of approximately 1.5 mW. The spectral resolution was approximately 2 cm k That no photoalteration of the samples occurred during the UV laser irradiation was ensured by confirming that the visible Raman spectra were unaltered after the UV Raman measurements. 

The previous chapters are exclusively devoted to the measurements and interpretation of Fe spectra of various iron-containing systems. Iron is, by far, the most extensively explored element in the field of chemistry compared with all other Mdssbauer-active elements because the Mossbauer effect of Fe is very easy to observe and the spectra are, in general, well resolved and they reflect important information about bonding and structural properties. Besides iron, there are a good number of other transition metals suitable for Mossbauer spectroscopy which is, however, less extensively studied because of technical and/or spectral resolution problems. In recent years, many of these difficulties have been overcome, and we shall see in the following sections a good deal of successful Mossbauer spectroscopy that has been performed on compounds of... 

Several precautions were taken to ensure the immobilization chemistry. First, the sulfhydryl groups containing the macromolecular fraction was spectrophotometrically determined according to the literature [15]. We found that every set of 150 base pairs contained approximately one disulfide group. Since the DNA fragment used has hundreds of base pairs, each DNA strand seems to have one disulfide as its terminal group. Next, we made IR spectral measurements in a reflection-absorption (RA) mode [14b]. A freshly evaporated gold substrate was immersed into the DNA solution for 24 h at 5°C. The substrate was carefully rinsed with deionized water, dried under vacuum and was immediately used for the measurements. An Au substrate treated with unmodified, native sonicated CT DNA solution was also prepared as the control measurement. The / -polar-ized radiation was introduced on the sample at 85° off the surface normal and data were collected at a spectral resolution of 4 cm with 2025 scans. 

Instrumentally, spectral FLIM generates a spectrally resolved set of lifetimes by either introducing filters to provide spectral resolution or a spectrograph between the sample and image intensifier. The first such system was created for looking at the long lifetimes of lanthanide dyes [37]. Later, a spectral FLIM system was described for measuring from a two-dimensional (2D) area of a microscope field... 

Complex formation between Co and chelating agents was investigated by FT-IR spectroscopy after the second impregnation followed by drying. The dried sample was diluted with KBr powder and then formed into a self-supporting wafer. FT-IR measurements were carried out in a transmittance mode on an FTS6000 FT-IR spectrometer (Varian) with spectral resolution and accumulation time of 4 cm 1 and 1,024, respectively. 

This value depends on the spectral width of the resonant mode, amplitude noise (e.g., thermal and shot noise), spectral noise (e.g., thermo-optic variations in the sensing device), and the spectral resolution of the measurement technique21. Minimizing these parameters will improve the DL. 

Nonresonance Raman spectra of the alternating LB films were measured by a total reflection method shown in Figure 23. The films were deposited on quartz prisms. The s-polarized beam of 647.1 nm from a Kr laser was incident upon the interface between the quartz and film at an angle of 45° from the quarz side, and totally reflected. Raman line scattered from the film in the direction of 45° from the surface was measured through a Spex Triplemate by a Photometries PM512 CCD detector with 512x512 pixels operated at -125 °C. The spectral resolution was about 5 cm 1. 

Figure 10.1 shows a two-dimensional [15N, H]-TROSY correlation spectrum of the 15N,2H- labeled 110 kDa homo-octameric protein 7,8-dihydroneopterin aldolase from Staphylococcus aureus (DHNA) measured with the pulse sequence of Fig. 10.4 [13]. The gain in spectral resolution and sensitivity is readily apparent from comparison with the corresponding conventional experiment. The optimal sensitivity is achieved by adjusting the polarization transfer r in Fig. 10.4 (3 ms <2r<5.4 ms [3]). For an optimal suppression of the non-TROSY components, the so-called Clean TROSY might be used [19]. Similar signal and spectral resolution enhancements are achieved for 15N,2H-labeled or 13C,15N,2H-...

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