Horiba, Ltd.

Kiyoaki Hara

Issei Yokoyama

Masaru Tanaka

Natsuki Yoshida

Two sets of TACs are simultaneously operated by a start pulse, one set of TACs using a photoelectron pulse due to an excited light from a sample as a stop pulse, and the other set of TACs using a photoelectron pulse due to a fluorescence from the sample as a stop pulse. Each TAC outputs a voltage proportional to the time from the start of action to the receiving of the stop pulse and an excitation light shape and a luminescence transient shape are simultaneously measured on the basis of output voltages from the TACs. A variable offset voltage is added to an output of at least one of the two sets of TACs and the excitation light shape and the luminescence transient shape are displayed on a two-picture synthetic display.

Apparatus for measuring luminescence lifetime

A measuring method for a time resolved emission spectrum or a time resolved excitation spectrum, wherein when emission transient waveforms from a pulse-excited sample are measured by the time correlation photon counting method; the emission transient waveforms are measured at every optimum wavelength in a problematical emission spectrum region; the measured emission transient waveforms are stored in a memory in order and at every wavelength; all the transient waveforms in each wavelength are measured; thereafter, the time resolved emission spectrum or the time resolved excitation spectrum is produced on the basis of all the above-mentioned stored emission transient waveform data, thereby enabling the proper spectrum to be produced efficiently.

Measuring method for a time resolved emission spectrum or a time

A pair of time to voltage converters consisting of a converter for measuring the pulse shape of an exciting light and a converter for measuring the luminous shape are simultaneously activated by a start pulse so that the measurement of the pulse shape of the exciting light and the measurement of the luminous shape can be carried out in parallel in order to reduce the measurement time and to measure the luminous lifetime of the sample with a high accuracy.

Apparatus for measuring the luminous lifetime of a sample

An apparatus for measuring anisotropy of light emitted from the sample, in which photodetectors are each disposed by either side of the sample and TACs are connected to the abovesaid apparatus each correspondingly to one photodetector so that a vertical polarized component and a horizontal one of light emitted from the sample can be measured at the same time for enabling analysis operation in a short period of time and measurement in high precision.

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Kyoto, Japan

Kiyoaki Hara