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High-resolution, broad-spectral-range Raman measurement using a spatial heterodyne spectrometer with separate filters and multi-gratings
Summary
Researchers developed a spatial heterodyne Raman spectrometer with separate filters and multiple gratings that achieves high spectral resolution over a broad range in a single measurement, and demonstrated it can identify microplastics even in the presence of fluorescence interference. Better analytical tools like this are critical for accurately characterizing the types and quantities of microplastics in environmental samples.
We propose a high-resolution, broad-spectral-range spatial heterodyne Raman spectrometer (SHRS) having separate filters and multi-gratings (SFMG). A prototype of the SFMG-SHRS is built using multi-gratings with four sub-gratings having groove densities of 320, 298, 276, and 254 gr/mm and separate filters with filter bands corresponding to the sub-gratings. We use the SFMG-SHRS to measure the Raman spectra of inorganic and organic compounds with various integration times, laser power, and transparent containers, compare measurements of microplastics with and without the separate filters, and measure mixtures of inorganic powders and organic solutions. The designed SFMG-SHRS makes high-resolution, broad-spectral-range Raman measurements with improved signal-to-noise ratios and visibility of weak Raman peaks even in the presence of fluorescence.
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