Optics: measuring and testing – For light transmission or absorption – Of fluent material
Reexamination Certificate
2005-08-30
2005-08-30
Smith, Zandra V. (Department: 2877)
Optics: measuring and testing
For light transmission or absorption
Of fluent material
C356S440000, C356S364000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06937341
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed are system and method for characterizing a system consisting of a fluid sample on a two sided stage, utilizing data obtained by applying, from both sides thereof, beams of electromagnetic radiation to a fluid coated surface in a containing cell volume. The beams can have the same or different wavelength content and/or polarization state, and can be applied at the same or different magnitude angles-of-incidence, and a third typically unpolarized beam can be applied at a normal angle-of-incidence.
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Herzinger Craig M.
Johs Blaine D.
Pfeiffer Galen L.
Thompson Daniel W.
Woollam John A.
J. A. Woollam Co. Inc.
Smith Zandra V.
Welch James D.
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