Detection apparatus

Abstract

A detection apparatus includes: a light source configured to output, as signal light, multiwavelength light containing a plurality of wavelengths; an irradiation unit configured to irradiate a measurement target that is to be detected with the signal light; a first separation unit configured to generate first light by separating scattered light into individual wavelengths, the scattered light being the signal light scattered by the measurement target; a second separation unit configured to generate second light by separating the signal light into individual wavelengths; an amplifier configured to generate third light by superimposing, for each wavelength, the first light and the second light; and an identifier configured to identify the measurement target, based on the third light.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.