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Title: Spectroscopic quantification of extremely rare molecular species in the presence of interfering optical absorption

Abstract

Optical spectrometer apparatus, systems, and methods for analysis of carbon-14 including a resonant optical cavity configured to accept a sample gas including carbon-14, an optical source configured to deliver optical radiation to the resonant optical cavity, an optical detector configured to detect optical radiation emitted from the resonant cavity and to provide a detector signal; and a processor configured to compute a carbon-14 concentration from the detector signal, wherein computing the carbon-14 concentration from the detector signal includes fitting a spectroscopic model to a measured spectrogram, wherein the spectroscopic model accounts for contributions from one or more interfering species that spectroscopically interfere with carbon-14.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1356288
Patent Number(s):
9645077
Application Number:
14/714,658
Assignee:
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01J - MEASUREMENT OF INTENSITY, VELOCITY, SPECTRAL CONTENT, POLARISATION, PHASE OR PULSE CHARACTERISTICS OF INFRA-RED, VISIBLE OR ULTRA-VIOLET LIGHT
G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
DOE Contract Number:  
AC52-07NA27344
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2015 May 18
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

Citation Formats

Ognibene, Ted, Bench, Graham, McCartt, Alan Daniel, Turteltaub, Kenneth, Rella, Chris W., Tan, Sze, Hoffnagle, John A., and Crosson, Eric. Spectroscopic quantification of extremely rare molecular species in the presence of interfering optical absorption. United States: N. p., 2017. Web.
Ognibene, Ted, Bench, Graham, McCartt, Alan Daniel, Turteltaub, Kenneth, Rella, Chris W., Tan, Sze, Hoffnagle, John A., & Crosson, Eric. Spectroscopic quantification of extremely rare molecular species in the presence of interfering optical absorption. United States.
Ognibene, Ted, Bench, Graham, McCartt, Alan Daniel, Turteltaub, Kenneth, Rella, Chris W., Tan, Sze, Hoffnagle, John A., and Crosson, Eric. Tue . "Spectroscopic quantification of extremely rare molecular species in the presence of interfering optical absorption". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1356288.
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abstractNote = {Optical spectrometer apparatus, systems, and methods for analysis of carbon-14 including a resonant optical cavity configured to accept a sample gas including carbon-14, an optical source configured to deliver optical radiation to the resonant optical cavity, an optical detector configured to detect optical radiation emitted from the resonant cavity and to provide a detector signal; and a processor configured to compute a carbon-14 concentration from the detector signal, wherein computing the carbon-14 concentration from the detector signal includes fitting a spectroscopic model to a measured spectrogram, wherein the spectroscopic model accounts for contributions from one or more interfering species that spectroscopically interfere with carbon-14.},
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