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Title: Computer controlled fluorometer device and method of operating same

Abstract

A computer controlled fluorometer device and method of operating same, said device being made to include a pump flash source and a probe flash source and one or more sample chambers in combination with a light condenser lens system and associated filters and reflectors and collimators, as well as signal conditioning and monitoring means and a programmable computer means and a software programmable source of background irradiance that is operable according to the method of the invention to rapidly, efficiently and accurately measure photosynthetic activity by precisely monitoring and recording changes in fluorescence yield produced by a controlled series of predetermined cycles of probe and pump flashes from the respective probe and pump sources that are controlled by the computer means. 13 figs.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
OSTI Identifier:
7076514
Patent Number(s):
4942303
Application Number:
PPN: US 7-304273
Assignee:
Associated Universities, Inc., Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-76CH00016
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 31 Jan 1989
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
14 SOLAR ENERGY; MONITORS; DESIGN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; MONITORING; COMPUTER CALCULATIONS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; SYNTHESIS; 140505* - Solar Energy Conversion- Photochemical, Photobiological, & Thermochemical Conversion- (1980-)

Citation Formats

Kolber, Z, and Falkowski, P. Computer controlled fluorometer device and method of operating same. United States: N. p., 1990. Web.
Kolber, Z, & Falkowski, P. Computer controlled fluorometer device and method of operating same. United States.
Kolber, Z, and Falkowski, P. Tue . "Computer controlled fluorometer device and method of operating same". United States.
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abstractNote = {A computer controlled fluorometer device and method of operating same, said device being made to include a pump flash source and a probe flash source and one or more sample chambers in combination with a light condenser lens system and associated filters and reflectors and collimators, as well as signal conditioning and monitoring means and a programmable computer means and a software programmable source of background irradiance that is operable according to the method of the invention to rapidly, efficiently and accurately measure photosynthetic activity by precisely monitoring and recording changes in fluorescence yield produced by a controlled series of predetermined cycles of probe and pump flashes from the respective probe and pump sources that are controlled by the computer means. 13 figs.},
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