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Single-Detector Double-Path Intensity-Modulation Spectrometer

Published Patent Application Number: 18/514008

Abstract

A method of determining an optical spectrum for a sample substance includes splitting a source beam into a reference beam and a sample beam, periodically modulating the intensity of the beams out of phase of each other, directing the reference beam through a reference substance and the sample beam through the sample substance. The beams are then recombined, and a single detector detects the intensity difference at the modulation frequency to determine the spectrum of the sample substance.

Created June 6, 2024, Updated June 7, 2024