摘要 |
A procedure is described to calibrate an optical converter, especially for use in the field of reflectrometric interference spectroscopy. The converter has a layer/substrate system with a layer and a substrate. A light beam shines from the substrate side, and parts of it are reflected or transmitted at the interfaces of air/substrate, substrate/layer and layer/air. The converter in particular serves to convert the light beam into a modulated (especially frequency modulated or phase modulated) signal. The light is varied within a wavelength or frequency range from which a corresponding modulated spectrum is determined. In particular, it is assumed that the performance quantities of especially the converter and a radiation source generating the light are subject to temporal fluctuations. The calibration is carried out in particular by determining reference values of the modulated spectrum at time t=0, successively determining values of the modulated spectrum for times t>0, and calculating temporal changes in the modulated spectrum for t>0 using in particular a linear disturbance equation based on the assumed infinitisimal changes in at least one of the performance quantities so the interference spectroscopy measuring setup.
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