Instantaneous reading multichannel polychromatic spectrophotometer method and apparatus

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Abstract of the Disclosure, A beam of radiation is directed into a liquid sample cell containing a sample to be analyzed in solution. The illumination emanating from the sample cell as a result of the beam of radiation from the radiation source is diffracted into a polychromatic spacially divergent beam and directed to a linear array of photovoltaic photodetectors with different spectral segments of the beam being intercepted by different photodetectors of the array. The signals from the photodetectors are separately and substantially simultaneously sampled and held to thereby obtain data usable for a high-accuracy widespectrum chromatogram.