A compact vacuum ultraviolet spectrometer system has been developed to provide time-resolved impurity spectra from tokamak plasmas. Two interchangeable aberration-corrected toroidal diffraction gratings with flat focal fields provide simultaneous coverage over the ranges 100-1100 A or 160-1700 A. The detector is an intensified self-scanning photodiode array. Spectral resolution is 2 A with the ...

We demonstrated a time-of-flight (TOF) ranging system employing laser pulses at 1550 nm with multiple repetition rates to decrease the range ambiguity, which was usually found in high-repetition TOF systems. The time-correlated single-photon counting technique with an InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiode based single-photon detector, was applied to record different arrival time of the scattered retu...

A reversed-phase LC method, optimised for the separation of trans- and cis-resveratrol, catechin, epicatechin, quercetin and rutin, is reported. Analyses were performed on a reversed-phase column by gradient elution. Detection was carried out by photodiode array, although the use of a fluorimetric detector considerably lowered the detection limits for catechin, epicatechin and both resveratrol ...

A portable bioluminescence analyser for detecting the DNA sequence of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) was developed by using a photodiode (PD) array. Pyrosequencing on eight genes (zSSIIb, Bt11 and Bt176 gene of genetically modified maize; Lectin, 35S-CTP4, CP4EPSPS, CaMV35S promoter and NOS terminator of the genetically modified Roundup ready soya) was successfully detected with this ins...

Near-field photodetection optical microscopy (NPOM) is a fundamentally new approach to near-field optical microscopy. This scanning-probe technique uses a nanometer-scale photodiode detector as a near-field optical probe. We have fabricated probes for NPOM that have optically sensitive areas as small as 100 nm x 100 nm. These new NPOM probes have been employed to image light transmitted through...

We compare a more complete characterization of the low temperature performance of a nominal 1.7um cut-off wavelength 1kx1k InGaAs (lattice-matched to an InP substrate) photodiode array against similar, 2kx2k HgCdTe imagers to assess the suitability of InGaAs FPA technology for scientific imaging applications. The data we present indicate that the low temperature performance of existing InGaAs d...

A ultraperformance liquid chromatography (UPLC)-photodiode array (PDA) detection method was established for the simultaneous determination of seven constituents in Fructus aurantii-Magnolia bark decoction: naringin, hesperidin, neohesperidin, narirutin, meranzin hydrate, honokiol and magnolol. These were separated in <17 min using a C18 column with gradient elution using (a) acetonitrile, (b) w...

In this paper the use of a computer-controlled photodiode array spectrophotometric detector for the high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) profiling of carboxylic acids in physiological fluids is reported. The ultraviolet spectrum of the flowing eluent is obtained at 6-sec intervals and is displayed as the absorbance at 190 nm. A three-dimensional (time versus wavelength versus absorban...