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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 20, 2017
Applicant:

Board of Regents, the University of Texas System, Austin, TX (US);

Inventor:

Purnendu K Dasgupta, Arlington, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/03 (2006.01); G01N 21/31 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/31 (2013.01); G01N 21/031 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system for increasing light throughput in cavity enhanced spectrometry, and a model for cavity enhanced absorption measurements are presented. The cavity has an entrance mirror, an opposed exit mirror and a detector positioned adjacent the exit mirror. An input aperture is defined in the entrance mirror to allow light from a source to enter the cavity. The input aperture improves light throughput without significant departure from the theoretically predicted amplification of absorbance. This results in improvement of detection limits, even with mirrors of modest reflectivity and inexpensive detectors.


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