Single-Frame Chemical Imaging: Dimension Reduction Fiber-Optic Array Improvements and Application to Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy

Abstract

A single-frame approach to chemical imaging with high spectroscopic resolution is described that makes use of a second-generation dimension-reduction fiber-optic array. Laser-induced plume images are focused onto a 17 × 32 rectangular array of square close-packed 25 μm cross-sectional f/2 optical fibers that are drawn into a 544 × 1 distal array with serpentine ordering. The 544 × 1 side of the array is imaged with an f/2 spectrograph equipped with a holographic grating and a gated intensified charge-coupled device (ICCD) camera for spectral analysis. Software is used to extract the spatial/spectral information contained in the ICCD images and de-convolute them into wavelength-specific univariate reconstructed images or position-specific spectra that span an 86 nm wavelength space. Temporal resolution is provided by imaging sequential laser plumes with varying time delays after each laser pulse on the gated intensifier.

Keywords

Fiber optics Chemical imaging Spectroscopic imaging Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS)

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