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Myth: Light travels to and from the sample in a fibre-optic cable without problems

Esbensen, Kim H.; Geladi, Paul; Larsen, Anders

Abstract

This myth addresses spectral artefacts arising from the use of fibre-optic cables, typically used in multi-point Fourier transform near infrared (FT-NIR), diode-array or dispersive systems. It is tempting to assume that light travels in an optical fibre without challenges and that the fibre acts like a perfect optical element allowing us to focus on the spectrometer, sampling, cells and probes-but unfortunately this is not so.

Keywords

spectral artefacts fibre-optic cables multi-point Fourier transform near infrared (FT-NIR), diode-array or dispersive systems

Published in

NIR news
2014, Volume: 25, number: 6, pages: 25-26

    UKÄ Subject classification

    Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified

    Publication identifier

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1255/nirn.1475

    Permanent link to this page (URI)

    https://res.slu.se/id/publ/67685