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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5009500 | Remote method of measuring subsurface water temperatures A technique for measuring the unknown subsurface temperature Ts of a bulk transparent medium such as ocean water by splitting a pulsed laser beam having a high intensity into two sub-beams, one of which is a probe beam directed into the medium.... | 04/23/1991 |
| 4997273 | Remote method of measuring subsurface water temperatures A technique for measuring the unknown subsurface temperature Ts of a bulk transparent medium such as ocean water by generating a continuous (cw) laser beam and pulsed laser beam both having the same wavelength, with the intensity of the pulsed ... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4986656 | Method of remotely measuring diffuse attenuation coefficient of sea water A method of remotely measuring the diffuse attenuation coefficient K of ocean water from an airborne platform such as an aircraft. By directing a pulsed laser beam having a wavelength λ0 from the platform into the water, the beam interacts the... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4986655 | Apparatus for measuring diffuse attenuation coefficient of sea water Apparatus is disclosed for remotely measuring the diffuse attenuation coefficient K of ocean water from a platform such as an aircraft flying over the ocean. A pulsed laser beam is directed as a probe beam from the aircraft into the water to produce there... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4984903 | Method of optically and remotely sensing subsurface water temperature To remotely measure the unknown subsurface temperature Ts of a bulk transparent medium such as ocean water, a laser beam having a high power or intensity is split into two parts, a probe beam and a reference beam. The probe beam is directed int... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4973853 | Remote subsurface water temperature measuring apparatus with Brillouin scattering Apparatus for measuring the unknown subsurface temperature Ts of a bulk transparent medium such as ocean water comprises a pulsed laser having a high intensity (power per unit area) output beam split into two sub-beams, one of which is a probe ... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4962319 | Remote subsurface water temperature measuring apparatus with Brillouin scattering Apparatus is disclosed for remotely sensing the unknown subsurface temperature Ts of a bulk transparent medium, such as ocean water, using a cw laser beam and a pulsed laser beam. In one embodiment the cw output of a continuous laser is split i... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4948958 | Remote subsurface water temperature measuring apparatus with brillouin scattering To remotely measure the unknown subsurface temperature Ts of a bulk transparent medium such as ocean water, a high intensity pulsed laser beam is split into two sub-beams, a probe beam and a reference beam. The probe beam is directed into a sam... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4912994 | Linkage device A linkage device connectable between adjacent ends of a tubular support member and payload member is adapted to rotate the payload member through approximately 180° about the end of the support member between inoperative and operative positions by moveme... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4911373 | Toroidal winch A winch having a torodially-shaped drum with an axis of rotation and at least one cable wound on the drum having a cable length extending from the drum parallel to and substantially equally spaced from said axis at all times during rotation of the winch. ... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4907887 | High resolution interferometer with high etendue The etendue (throughput or area-solid angle product) of a high resolution interferometer is maintained at a substantially high level by use of a transparent chamber defined by a highly reflective internal surface, the chamber being located at the input to... | 03/13/1990 |
