Fiber-based Stray Light Suppression in Spectrometers
(2017) FYSK02 20171Department of Physics
Combustion Physics
- Abstract
- Stray light is known as strong interference in spectroscopic measurements. With the creation of a novel kind of customized fibers, manufactured by the fiber optics group in Jena, Germany, a general experimental solution to this problem is possible. This thesis work is mainly aiming at testing and demonstrating how these fibers work for stray light suppression and their efficiency in measuring different types of optical signals. It is here demonstrated that the method is capable of stray-light suppression to more than one order of magnitude in Raman spectroscopy. In addition, studies of emission from Argon atoms show that the fiber is a good solution for suppression of background and high-frequency noises, which is reduced by more than a... (More)
- Stray light is known as strong interference in spectroscopic measurements. With the creation of a novel kind of customized fibers, manufactured by the fiber optics group in Jena, Germany, a general experimental solution to this problem is possible. This thesis work is mainly aiming at testing and demonstrating how these fibers work for stray light suppression and their efficiency in measuring different types of optical signals. It is here demonstrated that the method is capable of stray-light suppression to more than one order of magnitude in Raman spectroscopy. In addition, studies of emission from Argon atoms show that the fiber is a good solution for suppression of background and high-frequency noises, which is reduced by more than a factor of 3 and 5, respectively. The results show that the method is feasible and efficient in practical use and that it has potential as a further tool in spectroscopy. (Less)
- Popular Abstract
- Since the history of spectroscopy began with Isaac Newton's optics experiments, it has been beneficial to most research fields in natural science to study the interaction between matter and electromagnetic radiation. However, spectroscopy suffers from interferences called stray light. Stray light in an optical system can be described as light that deviates from the intended path and ends up in wrong places. In spectrometers, stray photons will distort the spectral characteristics of the detector. Therefore stray light can be a notable problem in spectroscopy, in particular when the spectral component of the signal-of-interest is near a strong spectral peak. The elimination or correction of stray light is desired in spectroscopic... (More)
- Since the history of spectroscopy began with Isaac Newton's optics experiments, it has been beneficial to most research fields in natural science to study the interaction between matter and electromagnetic radiation. However, spectroscopy suffers from interferences called stray light. Stray light in an optical system can be described as light that deviates from the intended path and ends up in wrong places. In spectrometers, stray photons will distort the spectral characteristics of the detector. Therefore stray light can be a notable problem in spectroscopy, in particular when the spectral component of the signal-of-interest is near a strong spectral peak. The elimination or correction of stray light is desired in spectroscopic experiments.
A solution to this problem was developed in 2014 at the Division of Combustion Physics at Lund University. One potential development of this method could be to use special designed fibers. Such fibers were manufactured by Hatmut Bartelt's group in Jena, Germany, which is an active group in fiber-related research. This thesis work, which is done in collaboration with the fiber optics group, aims at testing and demonstrating how these fibers work for stray-light suppression and how well they can be applied in measuring different type of optical signals. (Less)
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- author
- Gong, Miaoxin LU
- supervisor
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- Andreas Ehn LU
- Elias Kristensson LU
- Joakim Bood LU
- organization
- course
- FYSK02 20171
- year
- 2017
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- spectroscopy, spectrometer, stray light, fiber optics, Periodic Shadowing, lock-in analysis, Raman spectroscopy
- language
- English
- id
- 8912938
- date added to LUP
- 2017-06-09 12:48:09
- date last changed
- 2017-06-09 12:48:09
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note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Fiber-based Stray Light Suppression in Spectrometers}},
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