Optics: measuring and testing – By particle light scattering – With photocell detection
Reexamination Certificate
2006-01-03
2006-01-03
Turner, Samuel A. (Department: 2877)
Optics: measuring and testing
By particle light scattering
With photocell detection
Reexamination Certificate
active
06982790
ABSTRACT:
A system for forming an image of an object in a turbid medium comprises a light source for producing a coherent light beam of a selected frequency that is divided by a beamsplitter into a reference beam directed along a first optical path and a signal beam directed along a second optical path where the object to be imaged is located. The signal beam impinges upon the object and reflects back toward the beamsplitter. The reference beam is modulated to shift its frequency. A mirror reflects the reference beam back toward the beamsplitter for combination with the signal beam to produce an output optical signal. A photodetector receives the output optical signal from the beamsplitter and produces an electrical signal having a frequency related to shifts in frequency between the reference beam and the signal beam and having an amplitude proportional to the image intensity. A heterodyne detector connected to the photodetector produces a beat signal when the first and second optical paths have matching lengths so that the location of the point on the object where the signal beam reflected can be determined. By scanning the signal beam across the object, the system determines locations of a number of points on the object sufficient to form its image.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5459570 (1995-10-01), Swanson et al.
patent: 5565986 (1996-10-01), Knuttel
Gilbert Harvey A.
Peck Donald G.
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
Turner Samuel A.
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