Patent ID: 11965812
Assignee: KINETIC RIVER CORP.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus for analyzing an optical signal decay, comprising:
a source of a beam of pulsed optical energy configured to expose a sample to the beam;
a detector comprising a number of spectral detection channels configured to detect optical signals resulting from interactions between the beam and the sample and convert the optical signals into respective electrical signals;
at least one processor and memory storing instructions that when executed cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving the respective electrical signals from the detector, wherein the respective electrical signals represent a time-domain sequence of pulse signals;
segmenting the time-domain sequence of pulse signals into equal pulse signal segments each comprising substantially a same number of sampling points, wherein each sampling point of each pulse signal segment corresponds to a respective sampling index;
coherently adding a value of a sampling point corresponding to the respective sampling index of each pulse signal segment to form a supercurve comprising at least one supercurve component; and
determining an intensity contribution of the at least one supercurve component of the sample by numerically fitting a model to the supercurve.