Title

Event-locked time-resolved fourier spectroscopy

Keywords

Fourier; Spectroscopy; Time-resolved

Abstract

A low-cost method of adding time-resolving capability to commercial Fourier transform spectrometers with a continuously scanning Michelson interferometer has been developed. This method is specifically designed to eliminate noise and artifacts caused by mirrorspeed variations in the interferometer. The method exists of two parts: (1) a novel timing scheme for synchronizing the transient events under study and the digitizing of the interferogram and (2) a mathematical algorithm for extracting the spectral information from the recorded data. The novel timing scheme is a modification of the well-known interleaved, or stroboscopic, method. It achieves the same timing accuracy, signal-to-noise ratio, and freedom from artifacts as step-scan time-resolving Fourier spectrometers by locking the sampling of the interferogram to a stable time base rather than to the occurrences of the HeNe fringes. The necessary pathlength-difference information at which samples are taken is obtained from a record of the mirror speed. The resulting interferograms with uneven pathlength-difference spacings are transformed into wavenumber space by least-squares fits of periodic functions. Spectra from the far-infrared to the upper visible at resolutions up to 0.2 cm-1 are used to demonstrate the utility of this method.

Publication Date

1-1-1997

Publication Title

Applied Spectroscopy

Volume

51

Issue

8

Number of Pages

1106-1111

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1366/0003702971941917

Socpus ID

0031212246 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0031212246

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