OPTICAL PHASE MODULATION INSTRUMENTS

摘要

OPTICAL PHASE MODULATION INSTRUMENTS To obtain the refractive index of a fluid, each of two beams of light are transmitted at an angle through different ends of a vibrating quartz crystal to phase modulate the beams of light with respect to each other and then transmitted through two different flow cells before being combined at a point of nearly equal optical path length from the source of light, with the resulting interference pattern being transmitted onto a photocell to generate an electrical signal which varies periodically with the modulation of the two beams of light. The signal from the photocell and a signal representing the modulation of the crystal are compared in phase and a third signal indicates the refractive index of the effluent from the chromatographic column generated as a result of this comparison.