Patent ID: 6714298
Filing Date: 2004-03-30
Classification: G01J

Abstract:
A spectrometer system, said system comprising:a spectral instrument wherein said spectral instrument comprises means for receiving optical wavelength energy; means for performing functions upon received, refracting, optical energy said functions being selected from the group consisting of receiving, refracting, reflecting, absorbing, directing, diffracting, dispersing, diffusing, focusing, chopping, filtering, detecting, amplifying, analyzing, comparing, and displaying; said functions performed being those of optical devices and optical instruments, said optical devices being selected from the group consisting of slits, splitting devices, prism devices, mirror devices, chopping devices, lenses and gratings, and said instruments being selected from the group consisting of monochromator, spectroradiometer, spectrophotometer and a spectral energy source; and a power module comprising means for providing to said spectral instrument, operating power, means for communicating, means for interconnecting said spectral instrument with a means for controlling said means br performing functions by said spectral instrument.