Inexpensive high-speed dentist drill light chopper and its use in rejecting luminescence background from Raman spectra

R. J. Nemanich; S. A. Solin; J. Doehler

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Inexpensive high-speed dentist drill light chopper and its use in rejecting luminescence background from Raman spectra

R. J. Nemanich, S. A. Solin, J. Doehler

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An inexpensive dentist drill laser beam chopper is described. The chopper, which can be tuned for a chopping frequency from 100 Hz to 400 kHz, is compact, stable, and easily constructed. The usefulness of the dentist drill laser beam chopper is demonstrated in a technique for the suppression of luminescence background in Raman spectra. The technique is shown to be capable of almost complete suppression of luminescence with decay lifetimes greater than 10 ^-6 sec.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	741-744
Number of pages	4
Journal	Review of Scientific Instruments
Volume	47
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1134726
State	Published - 1976
Externally published	Yes

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Inexpensive high-speed dentist drill light chopper and its use in rejecting luminescence background from Raman spectra

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