Method and apparatus for determining mirror position in a fourier-transform infrared spectrometer
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Jul 11, 1989
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Mar 31, 1988
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The position of the moving mirror (20) in a Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer is monitored with a circuit which has an incremental counter formed of a plurality of cascaded up/down counters (82, 84, and 86) that count the pulses received by a laser detector (42) to yield a relative position count. A microprocessor (100) maintains an absolute position count by reading the counters (82, 84, and 86) and updating its absolute position count at regular intervals. A portion of the circuit is dedicated to discriminating the direction of the moving mirror (20) by gating circuitry connected to the digitized output of the laser detectors (42, 44).
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