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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8436992 | Low distortion spectrometer An imaging assembly for a spectrometer includes a substrate with first and second modules thereon containing respective arrays of detector elements positioned so the arrays are elongated along a first axis with a gap therebetween. A third module including a third ar... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8432546 | Method and system for stimulated Raman microscopy beyond the diffraction limit Systems and methods for probing a Raman signature of a sample with a resolution exceeding the diffraction limit are described. These systems, called GASSE (Gain Saturated Stimulated Emission) and iGASSE (interferometric GASSE), are detecting a Raman signal produced ... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8422012 | Spectrometer and image forming apparatus having the same There is provided is a spectrometer having a concave reflection type diffraction element, wherein, among surfaces other than a diffraction surface of the diffraction element, non-diffraction surfaces which are located outside the diffraction surface at the same side... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8416407 | Optical spectrometer with wide field of view fore-optics Various embodiments provide an optical system including an optical spectrometer, a first negative power mirror configured and arranged to receive radiation from a far-field object, a second positive power mirror configured and arranged to receive radiation reflected... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8411269 | Spectroscopic module In the spectroscopy module 1, a light detecting element 4 is provided with a light passing opening 4b through which light made incident into a body portion 2 passes. Therefore, it is possible to prevent deviation of the relative po... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8390806 | MEMS spectrometer and sensing systems therefrom A MEMS spectrometer includes an optical substrate having a first face and a second face. A first semiconductor substrate is attached to the first face and includes a slit for passing incident light to the optical substrate, at least one integrated reflective grating... | 03/05/2013 |
| 8379203 | Spectrometers with aberration-corrected concave diffraction gratings and transmissive aberration correctors The invention generally relates to spectrometers and optical systems useful therein. More particularly, the invention generally relates to optical systems and systems having improved functionalities, flexibilities, and design options. For example, optical systems of... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8363217 | Spectrometric measurement apparatus, image evaluation apparatus, and image forming apparatus A spectrometric measurement apparatus includes a light radiation unit for radiating light onto a medium; a hole array including openings arranged one-dimensionally for transmitting diffusion light from the medium; an imaging optical system configured to focus an ima... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8358410 | Large field of view, high numerical aperture compound objective lens with two pairs of identical elements and near IR spectrometer containing two such compound lenses An apparatus consisting of two pairs of identical lenses which is suitable as a compound objective lens for high numerical aperture imaging is disclosed. The compound lens also has a wide field of view as a fraction of the compound lens focal length. By suitable cho... | 01/22/2013 |
| 8339600 | Dual waveband compact catadioptric imaging spectrometer A catadioptric dual waveband imaging spectrometer that covers the visible through short-wave infrared, and the midwave infrared spectral regions, dispersing the visible through shortwave infrared with a zinc selenide grating and midwave infrared with a sapphire pris... | 12/25/2012 |
| 8310674 | Volume phase grating spectrometers A spectrometer is provided including a camera and an axial symmetric camera mount configured to receive the camera and to rotate. The spectrometer furthers include an input for providing optical radiation to a spectrometer system; a diffraction grating for dispersin... | 11/13/2012 |
| 8305577 | Method and apparatus for spectrometry In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, apparatus comprising a waveguide and a spectral dispersion element, the apparatus being configured to be moveably attachable to a portable device, the portable device comprising a radiation sensing e... | 11/06/2012 |
| 8269967 | Method for measuring characteristic of object to be measured, structure causing diffraction phenomenon, and measuring device A method of attaching an object to be measured to a structure causing a diffraction phenomenon; irradiating the structure to which the object to be measured is attached and which causes the diffraction phenomenon with an electromagnetic wave; detecting the electroma... | 09/18/2012 |
| 8264682 | Optical spectrum analyzer An optical spectrum analyzer includes a diffraction-grating control unit configured to change an angle of a diffraction grating to change a wavelength of a dispersed light beam extracted from incident light, a calculator unit configured to calculate an angle of the ... | 09/11/2012 |
| 8248603 | Focus apparatus of image measuring system A focus apparatus comprises a first illuminator for emitting light onto an object, an optical apparatus, an image capture apparatus for receiving an image of the object through the optical apparatus, and converting the image into electronic signals, a spectroscope, ... | 08/21/2012 |
| 8233148 | Hyperspectral imaging systems Hyperspectral imaging systems that may be used for imaging objects in three-dimensions with no moving parts are disclosed. A lenslet array and/or a pinhole array may be used to reimage and divide the field of view into multiple channels. The multiple channels are di... | 07/31/2012 |
| 8203710 | Compact wide field fast hyperspectral imager A spectrometer having substantially increased spectral and spatial fields. ... | 06/19/2012 |
| 8189192 | Volume phase grating spectrometers and related methods and systems A Spectrometer is provided including a camera and an axial symmetric camera mount configured to receive the camera and to rotate. The spectrometer furthers include an input for providing optical radiation to a spectrometer system; a diffraction grating for dispersin... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8174694 | Hyperspectral imaging systems Hyperspectral imaging system and methods that may be used for imaging objects in three-dimensions are disclosed. A cylindrical lens array and/or a slit array may be used to re-image and divide a field of view into multiple channels. The multiple channels are dispers... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174695 | Arrayed micro-ring spectrometer system and method of use A spectrometer system includes an array of micro-zone plates (MZP) each having coaxially-aligned ring gratings, a sample plate for supporting and illuminating a sample, and an array of photon detectors for measuring a spectral characteristic of the predetermined wav... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169609 | System and method for improving performance of optical systems with tilted windows An optical system with a tilted window. The novel optical system includes a first optical element for receiving an input signal and generating an output signal; a first window adapted to transmit the output signal, the first window being tilted at an angle relative ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8144324 | Method and apparatus for scanning hyper-spectral image The apparatus for scanning at least one hyper-spectral image comprises an optical system, the hyper-spectrometer and the relay module. The hyper-spectrometer is disposed apart from the optical system. The optical system can focus an optical image of a target in a fo... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139214 | Spectroscopy module, and method for manufacturing the same In a spectroscopy module 1, a light passing hole 5b through which a light L1 advancing to a spectroscopic portion 4 passes is formed in a light detecting element 5. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the relative positiona... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139213 | Two-dimensional spectral imaging system Systems, including methods, apparatus, and algorithms, for spectrally imaging a two-dimensional array of samples. ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8125639 | Temperature compensated spectroscope and optical apparatus A spectroscope includes an emitting portion from where light is output, a dispersive element which is disposed on a side of the light emitting portion, to which the light is output, an incidence portion on which, light dispersed by the dispersive element is incident... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125638 | Spectroscope An improvement is added to a spectroscope for performing wavelength dispersion of measured light with a wavelength dispersion element and receiving the light at a light reception element. The spectroscope has a first compound lens made up of a plurality of lenses fo... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8115924 | Optical characteristic measuring apparatus An optical characteristic measuring apparatus of the invention includes a sequentially-readable charge storage sensor array having a plurality of light receiving elements. Irradiation of first illumination light and second illumination light is controlled in such a ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8102527 | Spectrometer assembly The invention relates to a spectrometer arrangement (10) having a spectrometer for producing a spectrum of radiation from a radiation source on a detector (34), comprising an optical imaging Littrow arrangement (18, 20) for imaging the radiation... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102526 | Spectrometer with a slit for incident light and fabrication of the slit A spectrometer including an entrance slit and the production of the entrance slit. The spectrometer includes a housing, an entrance slit, and an imaging diffraction grating inside the housing for splitting and imaging the light onto an optoelectric detector. The det... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098373 | Spatially and spectrally parallelized fiber array spectral translator system and method of use System and method for spatially and spectrally parallelized FAST. A sample is illuminated to thereby produce interacted photons. The photons are passed through a filter and received at a two-dimensional end of a FAST device wherein said FAST device comprises a two-d... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094306 | Micro ring grating spectrometer with adjustable aperture A spectrometer includes a micro-ring grating device having coaxially-aligned ring gratings for diffracting incident light onto a target focal point, a detection device for detecting light intensity, one or more actuators, and an adjustable aperture device defining a... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085397 | Fiber optic sensor utilizing broadband sources Fiber optic sensors employ a high brightness light source such as a fiber optic supercontinuum source, multiplexed superluminescent light emitting diodes, or a broadband tunable laser diode. Light is delivered to the measurement location via fiber optics and sensor ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8068224 | Spectroscopic module In the spectroscopy module 1, a light absorbing layer 6 having a light-passing hole 6a through which light L1 advancing into a spectroscopic portion 3 passes and a light-passing hole 6b through which light L... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8059273 | Micro spectrometer for parallel light and method of use A spectrometer system includes an optical assembly for collimating light, a micro-ring grating assembly having a plurality of coaxially-aligned ring gratings, an aperture device defining an aperture circumscribing a target focal point, and a photon detector. An elec... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059272 | Time-resolved spectroscopic measurement apparatus Light dispersing device comprising a slit element having a slit for exposure to electromagnetic radiation, wherein the slit element is configured and disposed for turning the slit between at least two positions. The light dispersing device is used together with a st... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8049887 | Spectroscopic module The spectroscopy module 1 is provided with a body portion 2 for transmitting light L1, L2, a spectroscopic portion 3 for dispersing light L1 made incident from the front plane 2a of the body portion 2 in... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045157 | Spectroscopic module Since a spectroscopic module (1) has a plate-shaped body section (2), the spectroscopic module can be reduced in size by reducing the thickness of the body section (2). Moreover, since the body section (2) is plate-shaped, the spectroscop... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045159 | Optical apparatus of a stacked design, and method of producing same An optical apparatus includes a first substrate including an optical functional element, and a second substrate including a movable micromechanical functional element, the first substrate and the second substrate being connected in a stacked manner, so that a light ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045160 | Spectroscopy module Alignment marks 12a, 12b, 12c, and 12d are formed on the flat plane 11a of the peripheral edge portion 11 formed integrally with the diffracting layer 8, and when the lens portion | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045158 | Spectrometer In a state that the body portion 4 is regulated by inner wall planes 27, 29, 28 of the package 3 so as not to move in parallel or perpendicularly with respect to the rear plane 4b, the spectroscopic module is directly supported by ... | 10/25/2011 |
