Abstract: An integrating sphere-equipped optical measurement device and optical connector polarity and type identification and loss measurement are provided. The optical measurement device includes at least two photodetectors that are optically responsive over different ranges of wavelengths. The optical measurement device receives one or more optical signals emanate from optical fibers of an optical fiber cable. The optical measurement device determines an optical intensity or loss of the one or more optical signals based on a measurement made by a corresponding photodetector whose responsivity range includes a wavelength of the one or more optical signals. The optical measurement device determines one or more respective positions where the one or more optical signals impinged on a sensor. The optical measurement device determines a polarity of the optical fiber cable based on both the one or more positions and one or more or transmitting positions of the one or more optical signals, respectively.

Abstract: In order to make it possible to perform exhaust gas analysis by a vehicle-mounted exhaust gas analyzer and the analysis, evaluation, and the like of results of the analysis in consideration of a running state of a surrounding vehicle during the exhaust gas analysis, the vehicle-mounted exhaust gas analyzer mounted in a test vehicle running on a road is adapted to include an exhaust gas data acquisition part adapted to acquire exhaust gas data on exhaust gas discharged from the test vehicle during the run of the test vehicle, and a surrounding vehicle information acquisition part adapted to, from surrounding vehicle sensing means mounted in the test vehicle, acquire surrounding vehicle information that is information on a vehicle running around the test vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle driving test apparatus includes: a fixed position terminal that is fixed at a driving course and detects a fixed GPS signal; and a vehicular position terminal that is installed in a vehicle, detects a vehicle GPS signal per a predetermined time while the vehicle moves a predetermined distance, receives the fixed GPS signal from the fixed position terminal, sets the vehicle position based on the vehicle GPS signal and the fixed GPS signal, sets a reference line based on an entering angle of the vehicle, and tests a leaning state of the vehicle through the reference line and the vehicle position that is changed per the predetermined time.

Abstract: An apparatus for collecting a dry material sample flowing in a duct is disclosed. The apparatus includes a sample tube having a closed distal end and a sample-inlet aperture in the wall of the sample tube adjacent the closed distal end, a housing configured as a fluid cylinder with a duct end and an outlet end and a piston mounted around and connected to the sample tube and positioned within the housing. The apparatus also includes first and second sealing sleeves around and slideably supporting the sample tube. The duct end includes the first sealing sleeve and the outlet end includes the second sealing sleeve. A duct-connecting structure extends between the duct end of the housing and the duct. The sample tube is a piston rod within the fluid-cylinder housing, and the fluid-cylinder housing is configured to extend and retract the sample tube within the duct.

Abstract: A passive and active sampler for airborne particulate sampling (especially particles of biological origin) and a method of using same are disclosed. The sampler includes a sampler base portion of variable size and shape having a longitudinal body and an inner surface. The sampler base portion is configured with a plurality of air channels having variable air channel spacing therethrough the longitudinal body. A plurality of layers of ferroelectric film have a first side and a second side polarized by application of an external electric field such that the first side produces a negative electric field at a first surface and the second side produces a positive electric field at a second surface. The plurality of layers of polarized, ferroelectric film are disposed thereon the longitudinal body with their opposite polarization directions facing each other across a fixed air gap to collect both charged and uncharged particles.

Abstract: A detector inlet for providing a sample to an analytical apparatus for detecting a substance of interest, the detector inlet comprising a plenum for allowing passage of a flow of a gaseous fluid, the plenum comprising a sampling volume a sampling inlet arranged in the plenum and arranged to collect samples of the gaseous fluid from the sampling volume and to provide the samples to the analytical apparatus, wherein the flow carries particulates and a flow director arranged to create circulatory flow of the gaseous fluid around the plenum encircling the sampling inlet thereby to vary a spatial distribution of the particulates carried by the fluid to increase a relative proportion of the particulates carried past the sampling inlet without entering the sampling volume.

Abstract: A closed-system flow cell system featuring an encasement with an inner cavity adapted to hold a slide and form a channel atop the slide. The encasement comprises a groove pattern within the channel, wherein the groove pattern provides a chaotic advection regime to fluid within the channel. The flow cell system helps enhance fluid mixing and prevent reagent evaporation and drying out of the tissue.

Abstract: A system for applying a fluid to a substrate bearing a sample for analysis has an array of sensor plates positioned to sense the presence of fluid in contact with respective areas of the substrate. In a particular embodiment, fluid presence in different areas of the substrate is sensed by the effect of the fluid and its identity on the impedances of capacitors formed between sensor plates within the array. In a more particular embodiment, by polling the sensor array continually while fluid is applied to the substrate determine a coverage map, a fluid dispensing mechanism can be controlled to efficiently cover the entire substrate with fluid a minimal amount of fluid, thereby reducing waste.

Abstract: A filter arrangement with a top element and a bottom element and a filter element therebetween captures oversized particles on the upper surface of the filter element and tangentially rinses these particles using an elution fluid to provide a concentration of particles in a relatively low volume of fluid for further analysis. In an intermediate step, the particles captured by the filter may be rinsed with a rinsing fluid such as water to pass additional undersized particles through the filter, thereby providing a purer sample. To improve efficiency, check valves may be used for passageways with one-way flow. Additionally, a configuration of three-way stopcocks may also be utilized. Finally, a sandwich arrangement is possible, wherein a single bottom element is sandwiched between two opposing top elements.

Abstract: A detector inlet for providing a sample to an analytical apparatus for detecting an aerosol, the detector inlet comprising; an intake for inhaling a flow of gaseous fluid to be sampled by the analytical apparatus;a mixing region;a first conduit for carrying a first part of the flow of gaseous fluid from the intake to the mixing region;a second conduit for carrying a second part of the flow of gaseous fluid from the intake to the mixing region; and a heater configured to heat the first part more than the second part,and wherein the detector inlet is configured to combine the first part with the second part in the mixing region.

Abstract: The present invention describes several embodiments of a device that allows for the supporting, storage and deployment of large surface area thin film solid phase microextraction (TF-SPME) chemical samplers from within a sample fluid carrier. The utility of said supporting device originates from the process by which the extraction surface is stabilised within a sample carrying fluid for the extraction of chemical molecules from said sample carrying fluid. The device is also characterized by having a sealing cavity, and moving mechanism or cap that can switch the supported TF-SPME chemical sampler between an open, sampling position, or closed storage position.

Abstract: A method for determining a linear density of a carbon fiber tow. The method includes providing a pulse of air directed toward the carbon fiber tow, determining, via a first sensor, an air pressure of the pulse of air, and measuring, via a second sensor, a displacement of the carbon fiber tow in response to the pulse of air directed toward the carbon fiber tow. The method further includes calculating, via a controller, a linear density of the carbon fiber tow based on the air pressure and the displacement, and outputting, via the controller, the linear density.

Abstract: Measuring device for measuring an elasticity and a viscosity of a medium, having a first measuring device part having a volume for receiving the medium to be measured, and a second measuring device part that protrudes into the volume, wherein the first measuring device part in relation to the second measuring device part is sealed by way of a gas flow seal, and wherein the first measuring device part in relation to the second measuring device part is movable in a rotating movement about a predefined axis.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of characterizing particles in a sample. The method comprises illuminating the sample in a sample cell with a light beam, so as to produce scattered light by the interaction of the light beam with the sample; obtaining a time series of measurements of the scattered light from a single detector; determining, from the time series of measurements from the single detector, which measurements were taken at times when a large particle was contributing to the scattered light; determining a particle size distribution, including correcting for light scattered by the large particle.

Abstract: A nanoparticle screening chip and a method using said chip allowing for determining physical properties of nanoparticles, wherein the screening chip comprises a substrate having a working surface divided into a plurality of areas, wherein (1) each of these areas presents different surface properties defined by surface energy component (d,b,a), the total free energy ?TOT of the surface of each area being defined as follows: ?TOT=?LW+2(?+??)0.5, wherein the components are: ?LW=dispersive component=d, ?+=electron acceptor component=b, ??=electron donor component=a; and (2) each of these areas comprises a plurality of subareas, each subarea comprising an array of sub-micrometric holes or elongated grooves with a different aperture size (S1, S2, S3, . . . ).

Abstract: A sensing device includes a sensor configured to obtain a spectral signature of at least one airborne particle. The sensor control circuitry is configured to compare the spectral signature of the at least one particle in the airflow with the reference spectral signatures for the plurality of types of particles and identify a first type of particle corresponding to the at least one particle in the airflow. The sensor control circuitry may also access a database to obtain health advice associated with the identified first type of particle and provide a report to a user device.

Abstract: A particulate matter detection sensor has an element part for detecting an amount of PM contained in exhaust gas emitted from an internal combustion engine. A deposition part and at least a pair of detection electrodes are formed on an end surface of the element part. Some of particles of PM is deposited on the deposition part. The pair of detection electrodes are arranged on the deposition part. The particulate matter detection sensor changes its output electrical signal according to variation of electrical properties between the pair of the detection electrodes due to deposition of PM on the deposition part. A concave collection part is formed on the deposition part. The concave collection part has a concaved shape when viewed from the edge surface of the element part.

Abstract: A method for the determination of lifetime of a filter of an electric discharge machine the electrical discharge machine in consideration of a maximum allowable filter pressure, wherein the time measuring unit counts the machining time ts during which an electric discharge machining process is running, a filter pressure sensor measures the filter pressure p(k), preferably with a predetermined sampling interval, the pressure measurement p(k) and the respective sampling time t(k) are stored, and the sampled measurements p(k) and the respective sampling times t(k) are used to determine the parameters of an exponential function which best fits to the plurality of sampled measurements regression analysis. The determined parameters include the filter lifetime tf, which serves to determine the residual time to the filter replacement tr and/or the calendar deadline of filter expiration.

Abstract: A sensor element which has a pair of positive and negative detection electrodes disposed on a surface of an insulation body as a detecting portion and a cover body configured to cover an opening of a cylindrical housing. The cover body is provided with gas inlet and outlet holes via which the measuring gas is introduced and discharged. The pair of detection electrodes have a plurality of wire electrodes. The wire electrodes electrically connected to the positive electrode and the wire electrodes electrically connected to the negative electrode are alternately arranged in parallel. Any one of a first insulation layer which is a narrow electrode interval Dn and a second insulation layer which is a wide electrode interval Dw, arranged between adjacent wire electrodes, and the first insulation layer arranged in a center part of the detecting portion.

Abstract: The invention provides a system (1) for performing sperm analysis and selection based on sperm cell morphology of sperm cells (6) in a fluid (5), the system (1) comprising: (i) a fluid flow channel (2) for transport of said fluid (5), the fluid flow channel (2) comprising an inlet (10) an analyzing zone (40) configured downstream from said inlet (10) and comprising a first pair of electrodes (41) comprising a first intra-electrode distance (dl), a sorting zone (50) configured downstream from said analyzing zone (40) and comprising a sorting device (51), and outlets (80, 90, . . .

Abstract: A method and system for particle detection and characterization including a current confining pixel and a light source. The pair of light detectors may comprise a first light detector and a second light detector electrically coupled to one another. Further, the first and the second light detectors may be situated in parallel and may have inverse polarities. Further, the particle detector method and system can comprise a boundary vernier-line having a width separating the first and the second light detectors. It may comprise a signal processor for processing an output waveform generated by a particle as it flows unobstructed on or near the detector surface; wherein the output waveform is bipolar and a polarity of the output waveform may flip when the particle crosses the boundary vernier-line; and wherein the signal processor may analyze the output waveform to ascertain at least one property of the particle. Methods of using the same are also disclosed.

Abstract: Method and device for determining at least one substance concentration (c) or at least one substance in a liquid medium, wherein the method consists of the following steps, liquid medium is introduced at a predefined flow speed into a vessel having a known shape, electromagnetic waves having predefined wavelength or having predefined wavelength range are coupled into the liquid medium contained in the vessel, wherein the electromagnetic waves cover a path length in the liquid medium which is dependent on a fill level (xi) of the liquid medium in the vessel, intensities (?i) of the electromagnetic waves are measured after covering the path length in the liquid medium at at least two predefined points in time (ti) and/or at at least two predefined fill levels (xi) of the vessel, and after a last intensity measurement, the at least one substance concentration (c) or the at least one substance is determined using the measured intensities (?i) and the at least two predefined points in time (ti) or the at least

Abstract: Systems and methods for examining spectral data over the course of a high speed event are described. The systems and methods can enable observation of the spectral evolution of a transient phenomenon into segment intervals on the order of, milliseconds or microseconds. The methods include reflecting light from an event off of a rotating mirror and sequentially delivering light from the mirror to a series of optical waveguides for sequential spectral analysis. The systems and methods can be useful in a wide variety of applications such as, LIBS applications; examination of high energy devices such as explosions or simulations of explosions; examination of deposition processes, e.g., coating formations; examination of chemical reactions; etc.

Abstract: An analyzer includes an acquirer configured to acquire color information on visible light and at least one of ultraviolet light and infrared light from image data, a memory configured to store reference data on the color information, and a determiner configured to determine characteristic data of an object in the image data based on the color information, the reference data, and an image capturing condition information. The image capturing condition information contains information on a spectral characteristic of illumination light in image capturing, and a spectral sensitivity curve of an image sensor and information on a spectral transmittance of an image capturing optical system.

Abstract: Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy apparatus for use in analysing a sample comprising a sample receiving location 2 for receiving a sample 3 for analysis; an illumination arrangement 4 for directing light towards a received sample; a detector 6 for detecting light reflected by a received sample; and collection optics 5 for directing light reflected by a received sample towards the detector. The illumination arrangement further comprises an interferometer 42 and a half beam block 45a, 45b which is disposed substantially at a focus in the optical path for blocking light which exits the interferometer, passes said focus, and is reflected from re-entering the interferometer.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to determine the concentration of a species within a sample. An example method may include collecting optical loss data over a range of frequencies from the sample using a spectroscopy system; placing the optical loss data into a plurality of bins, each bin having a defined frequency width; determining an average optical loss data value for the optical loss values within each bin that have an optical loss value less than a threshold value; removing the optical loss data within each bin having a value outside a tolerance range bounding the average optical loss data value for the respective bin; fitting a spectral curve to the remaining optical loss data; and determining the concentration of the species within the sample based on the spectral curve.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for rapidly detecting, localizing, imaging, and quantifying leaks of natural gas and other hydrocarbon and greenhouse gases. Scanning sensors, scan patterns, and data processing algorithms enable monitoring a site to rapidly detect, localize, image, and quantify amounts and rates of hydrocarbon leaks. Multispectral short-wave infrared detectors sense non-thermal infrared radiation from natural solar or artificial illumination sources by differential absorption spectroscopy. A multispectral sensor is scanned to envelop an area of interest, detect the presence and location of a leak, and raster scan the area around the leak to create an image of the leak. The resulting absorption image related to differential spectral optical depth is color mapped to render the degree of gas absorption across the scene. Analysis of this optical depth image, with factors including known inline pressures and/or surface wind speed measurements, enable estimation of the leak rate, i.e.

Abstract: A THz bolometer detector includes a directional antenna 1 that receives a THz wave having a wavelength ? and radiates the received THz wave, a reception antenna 2 that is provided so as to face the directional antenna 1, and a bolometer 4 that detects heat generation due to a current flowing in the reception antenna 2. The directional antenna 1 overlaps the reception antenna 2 in plan view, and a longitudinal length of the directional antenna 1 is set to be less than a longitudinal length of the reception antenna 2.

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for gas sensing over a wide tunable wavelength range provided by one or more quantum cascade lasers. A laser beam is generated within the wide tunable wavelength range, which is given by the sum of the wavelength ranges from the individual lasers. Gas sensing or detection is achieved by obtaining an infrared absorption spectrum for a sample contained in one or more cells having different path lengths for the laser beam.

Abstract: A monitoring probe is for monitoring a fluid inside a process system. The probe has a first portion comprising a plurality of optical sensors provided along a waveguide for monitoring a plurality of measurands from the fluid, wherein each optical sensor is configured to monitor at least one measurand from the fluid. The first portion of the probe is elongate and is configured to be inserted through an aperture of the process system into a chamber of the process system such that the optical sensors are in communication with the fluid. The probe further has an attachment element for securing the probe to the process system.

Abstract: The invention described herein relates to a method of detecting malaria comprising the steps of: (i) delivering an evanescent IR beam through said ATR substrate in contact with a patient blood sample; (ii) detecting IR radiation transmitted from the ATR substrate to produce a signal characteristic for one or more lipids in the sample, and (iii) processing said signal and a set of reference library spectra of lipids associated with malaria parasites in order to detect matches and quantify said one or more lipids in the sample. In contrast to the prior art, the present invention relies on detecting lipids instead of hemozoin.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for preparing dispersion gradients and an SPR injection method for determining full kinetics and affinity analysis in the presence of a competitor molecule. The SPR injection provides a dispersion gradient of two or more samples to a SPR flow cell and detector.

Abstract: An optical assurance cap, having a body including a through-bore, a first section having a first light absorption coefficient, a second section having a second light absorption coefficient, and a third section having a third light absorption coefficient, operatively arranged between the first section and the second section, wherein the first and second light absorption coefficients form a first combined light absorption coefficient, and the first, second, and third light absorption coefficients form a second combined light absorption coefficient, the first combined light absorption coefficient being less than the second combined light absorption coefficient.

Abstract: A flow cell is provided that includes surface-attached structures in a chamber. The structures are movable in response to a magnetic or electric field. A target extraction or isolation system includes the flow cell and a driver configured for applying a magnetic or electric field to the interior of the flow cell to actuate movement of the structures. The flow cell may be utilized to extract or isolate a target from a sample flowing through the flow cell. Further, a microfluidic system is provided that includes surface-attached structures and a microarray, wherein actuated motion of the surface-attached structures is used to enhance flow, circulation, and/or mixing action for analyte capture on the microarray.

Abstract: A method for determining the degree of sensitivity of a strain of fungus to an antifungal agent by using the possible change in a chitin level in a population of cells of a strain of fungus to an antifungal agent. The change is determined compared to the chitin level of a population of cells of said strain of fungus in the absence of antifungal agent.

Abstract: An optical sensor apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus comprises: a sample holder, configured to hold a sample, in operation; a probe, comprising an arrangement of luminescent quantum dots; an optical source, configured to optically excite the luminescent quantum dots; an optical detector, configured to read optical signals from the quantum dots; and a circuit. The circuit is connected to the optical detector and configured to determine correlations between optical signals read by the optical detector. The probe is positioned or positionable relatively to, e.g., at a distance from, the sample, such that optical signals transmitted by each of the quantum dots are influenced by the sample, in operation. The present invention is further directed to related methods of operation and fabrication methods.

Abstract: The detection chip according to the present invention has an accommodating part, a metal film, a first reaction field, and a second reaction field. The accommodating part accommodates a liquid. The metal film is arranged in a bottom part of the accommodating part so that one face thereof faces into the accommodating part. The first reaction field and the second reaction field are arranged in mutually different regions on one face of the metal film. A capture body is immobilized in the first reaction field and the second reaction field. When the liquid is accommodated in the accommodating part, the depth of the liquid on the first reaction field differs from the depth of the liquid on the second reaction field.

Abstract: A solution attachment device includes: an ejection tool having an ejection opening that ejects a solution in a direction of gravitational force; and a solution attachment control portion for controlling attachment of the solution ejected from the ejection opening to at least one attachment subject region of the solution formed on a substrate in a state in which the at least one attachment subject region is disposed below an end surface including the ejection opening of the ejection tool in the direction of gravitational force, and, in the state, a first projection region obtained by projecting the end surface to a surface perpendicular to the direction of gravitational force substantially overlaps a second projection region obtained by projecting the at least one attachment subject region to the surface.

Abstract: The object of the invention is the method of detection and selection of hybridoma cells capable to produce desired antibodies, comprising seeding the hybridoma cells in a culture vessel with biofunctionalized surface, containing culture medium, adding biofunctionalized luminescent labels and incubating such hybridoma cell culture, followed by optical detection of hybridoma cells producing desired antibodies by reaction of he biofunctionalized luminescent labels with the antibodies and detecting a luminescent label's signal border around hybridoma cells producing desired antibodies, and further separation in situ hybridoma cells producing the given antibody type from the rest of the cells.

Abstract: There is provided a method for correcting “pixel bleeding” caused by slow luminescence centers in laser scanning imaging (e.g., X-ray imaging using photostimulable phosphors and 2D dosimetry using optically stimulated luminescence). An embodiment uses a deconvolution procedure that takes into account the lifetime of the slow luminescence center and can be further constrained by the detection of fast and slow luminescence centers and combining line scans in opposite directions. An approach has been tested using simulated data and demonstrated experimentally by applying it to image reconstruction of two types of Al2O3 X-ray detector films (Al2O3:C and Al2O3:C,Mg), whose use in 2D dosimetry in conjunction with laser-scanning readout has so far been prevented by slow luminescence centers (35 ms lifetime from F-centers). We show that the algorithm allows the imaging using Al2O3 detectors 300 times faster than generally allowed considering the lifetime of the main luminescence centers.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for imaging an area of interest (22) of a sample (20) is disclosed. The sample (20) comprises a plurality of fluorophores (25). The method comprises illuminating (320) along an illumination path (40) the area of interest (22) and adjacent areas (27a, 27b) of the sample (20) with radiation at a first wavelength to excite the fluorophores (25), providing (330) along the illumination path (40) an illumination pattern with a minimum intensity in the area of interest to switch off the fluorophores (25) in the adjacent areas, and imaging (340) the area of interest (22) at a detection path, the to detection path being substantially perpendicular to the illumination path (40).

Abstract: A system includes a build-up cavity to locally increase the power of light beams within the build-up cavity, where the light beams interact with samples to sense a substance of interest. The build-up cavity is disposed within a main cavity that includes a gain material to amplify the light beams. A portion of the light beams oscillating in the build-up cavity propagators through the build-up cavity and functions as a feedback to control the linewidth of the light beams. The two cavities can function as two separate “filters” and light beams at wavelengths that propagate through both of these “filters” can be preferentially amplified. The combination of the build-up cavity and the main cavity can achieve high power and narrow linewidth for the light beams without complex electronics, thereby decreasing the size, weight, and power (SWaP) of the system.

Abstract: A method, to perform glow discharge optical emission spectrometry using a glow discharge tube equipped with an electrode having an end section, for producing a sample containing object that is to be disposed so as to be opposed to the end section, comprises: covering one end of a sample holding section having a cylindrical shape and being open at both ends using a covering member; filling a powder sample containing a material to be analyzed into the sample holding section; compressing the powder sample by pressurizing the filled powder sample from the other end to the one end of the sample holding section; and removing the covering member from the sample holding section, thereby producing the sample containing object which includes the sample holding section and the compressed powder sample and from which the compressed powder sample is exposed from the one end.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods of predicted a welding property for a given welding operation using at least one electrode. Embodiments determine a predicted weld deposit property and compare the predicted property to a desired property to determine whether or not a selected electrode for the given welding operation can achieve the desired weld deposit.

Abstract: A spectrometer system and method including a laser source for directing a laser beam to a sample producing plasma radiation on the sample. At least one fiber of a fiber bundle is connected to an illumination source for directing light to the sample. A spectrometer subsystem receives plasma radiation from the sample via the detection fiber bundle and receives light from the illumination source reflected off the sample also via the detection fiber bundle for detecting the presence of the sample.

Abstract: A chemiluminescence analyzer includes a reactor to cause waste liquid discharged from a blood purification apparatus to react with a reagent solution, a photodetector to measure an intensity of chemiluminescence arising in the reactor, a first liquid conveyor to convey the waste liquid from a waste liquid passage of the blood purification apparatus to the reactor, and a second liquid conveyor to convey the reagent solution to the reactor. The chemiluminescence analyzer further includes a liquid mixture passage extending from the reactor to convey a liquid mixture including the waste liquid and the reagent solution after reaction, a joint to couple the liquid mixture passage to the waste liquid passage of the blood purification apparatus, and an electric interface for connection with an external device.

Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a method and apparatus for measuring a sensor (10) comprising multiple optical resonators (11,12) optically connected to a single optical output interface (16). The optical resonators (11,12) are interrogated with a light input signal (Si). A light output signal (So) is measured from the optic al output interface (16) to determine a combined spectral response (Sa) covering a wavelength range (W) including a plurality of resonance peaks (?1,i, ?2,j) for each of the optical resonators (11,12). A Fourier transform spectrum (FT) of the combined spectral response (Sa) is calculated and a harmonic series of periodic peaks (n·f1) is identified in the Fourier transform spectrum (FT). The harmonic series of periodic peaks is filtered to obtain a filtered Fourier transform spectrum (FT1) and a sensor signal is calculated (X1) based on the filtered Fourier transform spectrum (FT1).

Abstract: A method for detecting at least one analyte in at least one sample of a body fluid is disclosed. Therein, at least one test element (124) is used, the at least one test element (124) having at least one test field (162) with at least one test chemistry (154) is used, wherein the test chemistry (154) is adapted to perform at least one optically detectable detection reaction in the presence of the analyte. The method comprises acquiring an image sequence of images of the test field (162) by using at least one image detector (178). Each image comprises a plurality of pixels. The method further comprises detecting at least one characteristic feature of the test field (162) in the images of the image sequence. The method further comprises correcting a relative position change between the image detector (178) and the test field (162) in the image sequence by using the characteristic feature, thereby obtaining a sequence of corrected images.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an associated device for verifying the transmittance of a flat-glass substrate (40) with a measuring device (10), with which light of at least one light source (20) is guided from one side of the flat-glass substrate (40) through the flat-glass substrate (40) to the opposite side of the flat-glass substrate (40), where it is captured by at least one receiving unit (30) and the transmittance of the flat-glass substrate (40) is determined by means of a comparison between the intensity of the light emitted by the light source (20) and the light incident upon the receiving unit (30). In a first measurement, a light source (20) generates polychromatic light in the process, wherein the transmittance is determined at a point of the flat-glass substrate (40), and in at least one further measurement, a light source (20) generates monochromatic light of a defined wavelength, the transmittance also being determined at the same point of the flat-glass substrate (40), if possible.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, as optical test apparatus includes a pump beam generating unit, a probe beam generating unit; and a photodetector. The pump beam generating unit generates a pump beam for exciting an elastic wave in a specimen. The probe beam generating unit generates a probe beam. The photodetector receives the probe beam. A first light penetration depth of the probe beam relative to the specimen is longer than a second light penetration depth of the pump beam relative to the specimen.