Endress+Hauser SpectraSensors SS2100r, Hardware Manual

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Introduction
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Note that contamination of the mirrors results solely in lower overall signal.
However, by tuning the laser off-resonance as well as on-resonance and
normalizing the data, the technique self calibrates every scan resulting in
measurements that are unaffected by mirror contamination.
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Incident Energy
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Raw Signal,
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Raw Signal,
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Figure 1–2 Typical raw signal from a laser diode
absorption spectrometer with and without mirror
contamination
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Normalized Absorption Signal
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Figure 1–3 Typical normalized absorption signal
from a laser diode absorption spectrometer