Design and operation of a compact, portable, room-temperature mid-infrared gas sensor is reported. The sensor is based on continuous-wave difference-frequency generation (DFG) in bulk periodically poled lithium niobate at 4.6 mum, pumped by a solitary GaAlAs diode laser at 865 nm and a diode-pumped monolithic ring Nd:YAG laser at 1064.5 nm. The instrument was used for detection of CO in air at ...

A single-event effect (SEE) simulation toolkit has been developed at CERN for the whole radiation effects community and released as an open-source code. It validated by comparing simulated energy deposition of inelastic interactions, due to monoenergetic neutrons in 1.2–17 MeV range, distribution measured experimentally a silicon diode detector.

A simple and reliable high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method with diode array detection was developed and validated for determination of human insulin in pharmaceutical preparation. The HPLC separation was achieved on a Phenomenex reversed-phase column (250 mm×4.6 mm, 5 m) using a mobile phase of acetonitrile and 0.2 M sodium sulfate buffer (pH 2.4) solution (25:75, v/v) at a flo...

A Michelson interferometer is illuminated by a broadband light source (e.g. light-emitting diode, superluminescent diode, arc or incandescent lamp). At the output of the interferometer, a CCD camera is used as a multiple detector. The measured object is placed in one arm of the interferometer and moved in the longitudinal direction as indicated by the arrow in Fig. 1. The surface of the object ...

PURPOSE The Monte Carlo calculation algorithm in the MultiPlan (Accuray, Palo Alto, CA) treatment planning system used for CyberKnife (Accuray) robotic radiosurgery requires in-air measurements. In this study, results were compared for the impact of build-up caps using a diode detector for small field in-air measurements. METHODS Two acrylic caps custom-made for the SFD diode detector (IBA, G...

PURPOSE To evaluate the dosimetric characteristics of a two-dimensional (2D) diode array detector irradiated with passively scattered proton beams. MATERIALS AND METHODS A diode array detector, MapCHECK (Model 1175, Sun Nuclear, Melbourne, FL, USA) was characterized in passive-scattered proton beams. The relative sensitivity of the diodes and absolute dose calibration were determined using a ...

Highly nonclassical character of optical quantum detectors, such as single-photon is essential for preparation states light and a vast majority applications in metrology information processing. Therefore, it both fundamentally interesting practically relevant to investigate the features measurements. Here we propose experimentally demonstrate procedure direct certification non-Gaussianity Wigne...

Design and fabrication of a low cost sensor for measuring electric field over a broad range of electromagnetic (EM) frequency is presented. The electric field probe consists of an electrically short dipole antenna and diode detector connected to an instrumentation amplifier via a high impedance line. The rectified diode voltage is conveyed over the high impedance line for real time data acquisi...

The development of a continuous wave, thermoelectrically cooled (TEC), distributed feedback diode laser-based spectroscopic trace-gas sensor for ultra-sensitive and selective ethane (C2H6) concentration measurements is reported. The sensor platform used tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) and wavelength modulation spectroscopy as the detection technique. TDLAS was performed usin...

The thermal cycling stress method is popularly used to study the thermal mechanical effect on metallization films in VLSI applications, specially in interconnect systems of power IC. The fast thermal cycling stress method reported in this paper has several advantages compared with using a conventional oven for thermal stress. A special test chip is designed to demonstrate the application of thi...