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Extreme Interferometry
Picture of a Vibrational Spectroscopist on the Clearwater
River
 Outline
 Conventional FT-IR spectrometer
 Desired performance
 Precessing Disk Interferometer
 Breadboard Instrument
 Stress: double-wedge
 Top View of Rapid Scan Interferometer Vacuum Box 
 3/4 View of Rapid Scan Breadboard Layout
 Rapid-scan frequency spectrum
 Retardation, velocity and duty cycle
 Very-rapid-scan frequency spectrum
 Frosch
 Schindler 1
 Schindler 2
 Woodruff
 Tilt-Compensated Interferometer
 Nutating Prism Interferometer
 Conventional vs Dual-ADC FT-IR Spectrometer
 LED Frequency Response
 Magnitude vs Phase Response of IR Channel
 Magnitude vs Phase Response of Laser Channel
 TGS Response over Time
 Noise/Artifact Levels
 TGS Response Ratios over Time
 Vector Resolution
 Fourier Transform
 FIR Filter
 Adaptive Filtering
 Data acquisition
 Raw ADC output
 Raw Infrared Data
 Mirror Velocity vs. Time
 Filtered Mirror Velocity
 Signal Processing
 Mirror Position vs. Time
 Orthogonality of Components
 Synthesized Interferogram
 Lomb Periodogram of IR Signal
 Lomb Periodogram of IR Signal
 Interferogram Noise Level
 Theoretical SNR Performance (mid-IR)
 Theoretical SNR Performance (NIR)
 SNR performance (before vacuum housing)
 Single 50 ms Scan; SNR ~500:1
 Signal to Noise Ratio 3 ms scans, 4 cm-1 resolution
 Spectrum, 3 milliseconds, 4 cm-1
 Picture of Chopper Wheel w/ Various Affixed Polymer
Samples
 Data of 85 Hz Chopper Wheel
 5 ms Observation through Wheel
 3 ms Scan Through Chopper
 Plastic Samples on the Fly 3 ms scans, 4 cm-1 resolution
 1,1-Difluoroethane ‘Canned Air’
 1,1-Difluoroethane 3 ms scans, 4 cm-1 resolution
 Sprayed 1,1-Difluoroethane 3 ms scans, 4 cm-1 resolution
 Conclusions
 Acknowledgments
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