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WO/2006/116362
This disclosure provides methods and devices for the label-free detection of target molecules of interest. The principles of the disclosure are particularly applicable to the detection of biological molecules (e.g., DNA, RNA, and protein...  
WO/2006/114764
Known position measuring systems must be well aligned to provide the necessary resolution for applications such as lithography. The proposed position measuring system (1) comprises a radiation emitting element (2) emitting a radiation be...  
WO/2006/116317
Systems, arrangements and methods for separating an electro-magnetic radiation and obtaining information for a sample using an electro-magnetic radiation are provided. In particular, the electro-magnetic radiation can be separated into a...  
WO/2006/114764
Known position measuring systems must be well aligned to provide the necessary resolution for applications such as lithography. The proposed position measuring system (1) comprises a radiation emitting element (2) emitting a radiation be...  
WO/2006/111356
An optical measuring device (1) comprises an optical, preferably interferometric sensor head (2) that is held by a support. In order to avoid disturbances of the measurement, the sensor head (2) is vibration-attenuated. For this purpose,...  
WO/2006/111593
The invention relates to an optical interferometer comprising an optical fibre or dielectric waveguide Sagnac cavity (1) which is closed by a coupler (2) with a coupling ratio (K), involving the introduction of a polychromatic optical si...  
WO/2006/108096
A method and apparatus for performing refractive index, birefringence and optical activity measurements of a material such as a solid, liquid, gas or thin film is disclosed. The method and apparatus can also be used to measure the proper...  
WO/2006/107195
At least three incoming light beams (10a-c) are combined partly combined into a null beam and partly into fringe tracking beams. The relative phase difference between the incoming beams (10a-c) is controlled so that a phase relationship ...  
WO/2006/108096
A method and apparatus for performing refractive index, birefringence and optical activity measurements of a material such as a solid, liquid, gas or thin film is disclosed. The method and apparatus can also be used to measure the proper...  
WO/2006/102997
A method of manufacturing an optical element comprises an interferometric test of the optical element using an interferometer system of a Fizeau type combined with principles of white-light interferometry. The optical element is disposed...  
WO/2006/103060
The invention relates to a polarizer for polarizing light, especially visible, ultraviolet or infrared light, using a polarizer passage surface through which the light to be polarized passes. The polarizer has a plurality of microscopic ...  
WO/2006/102001
This disclosure presents a version of a coherent laser radar system that is immune to environmental effects on Mach-Zehnder-configured interferometers and reference length standards comprising such systems. The present disclosure also de...  
WO/2006/102640
A hyperspectral imaging system and methods thereof especially useful in fields such as medicine, food safety, chemical sensing, and agriculture, for example. In one embodiment, the hyperspectral imaging module contains a light source (1)...  
WO/2006/100544
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is an imaging technique with high axial resolution in the micro-meter-scale range combined with a high sensitivity allowing for example to probe weakly back-scattering structures beneath the surface of ...  
WO/2006/101923
In a Fabry-Perot interferometer based sensor if insufficient light reflected from the sensor re-enters the fiber, the results from the Fabry-Perot interferometer-based sensor are compromised. Accordingly, a sensor assembly is provided th...  
WO/2006/102058
A method determines the complex scattering function of a portion of a sample under analysis. The method includes providing a magnitude spectrum of a complex spatial Fourier transform of a complex intermediate function. The complex interm...  
WO/2006/102058
A method determines the complex scattering function of a portion of a sample under analysis. The method includes providing a magnitude spectrum of a complex spatial Fourier transform of a complex intermediate function. The complex interm...  
WO/2006/102234
In general, in one aspect, the invention features methods that include locating a plurality of alignment marks on a moveable stage, interferometrically measuring a position of a measurement object along an interferometer axis for each of...  
WO/2006/096469
A lens power measuring system (100) has a light source (102) and a fiber-optic light delivery system (104) optically coupled to th light source (102) to receive illumination light from the light source (102). The fiber-optic light delive...  
WO/2006/093709
A heterodyne reflectometer system and method for obtaining phase shift information from heterodyned optical signals, from which film depths can be calculated A linearly polarized light comprised of two linearly polarized components that ...  
WO/2006/093709
A heterodyne reflectometer system and method for obtaining phase shift information from heterodyned optical signals, from which film depths can be calculated A linearly polarized light comprised of two linearly polarized components that ...  
WO/2006/089845
The invention relates to a method for interferometric absolute distance measuring by a frequency modulation electromagnetic radiation on at least one measurable target and for subsequently receiving a retransmitted radiation with a heter...  
WO/2006/091866
An interferometer includes a means for splitting, at a splitting location, an input light beam into a first beam and a second beam; and means for recombining, at a recombination location, the first beam and the second beam. The interfero...  
WO/2006/088822
A system and method for controllably chirping electromagnetic radiation from a radiation source includes an optical cavity arrangement. The optical cavity arrangement enables electromagnetic radiation to be produced with a substantially ...  
WO/2006/086034
The Miniature Fourier Transform Spectrophotometer provides the capability, in a miniaturized device, of determining the light absorption/transmission spectra of a collected sample of gas or liquid though Fourier Transform spectroscopy te...  
WO/2006/081998
The invention relates to a device for determining the thickness, distance, and/or profile of spaced-apart areas of a transparent and/or diffuse object, especially for measuring distances in an eye. A scanning unit (2) comprising a scanni...  
WO/2006/082067
The invention relates to an interferometric confocal method and to an interferometric confocal assembly for optical data memories, in particular terabyte volumes. According to said method, two-beam spectral interferometry using a broadba...  
WO/2006/083511
The current invention relates to a method and apparatus for evaporative light scattering detectors including a heat sink and other temperature regulating means for a nebulizer chamber.  
WO/2006/080923
The tilted relationship between the reference and test mirrors (24,26) of a Fizeau interferometer is used to spatially separate the reflections (R,T) from the two surfaces. The separate beams (R, T) are filtered through a spatial polariz...  
WO/2006/077598
Disclosed is a method of measuring an optical system artifact that includes introduction into an optical path of a measurement target (64) having at least one edge. Illuminating a section of the edge by a first illumination and illuminat...  
WO/2006/079013
A method for determining a characteristic of tissue in a biological sample comprising: directing light at the biological sample at a first depth and receiving that light reflected from the biological; directing the light at a reflecting ...  
WO/2006/077107
An image data set acquired by an optical coherence tomography (OCT) system is corrected for effects due to motion of the sample. A first set of A-scans is acquired within a time short enough to avoid any significant motion of the sample....  
WO/2006/079011
A method and system for determining a characteristic of a biological sample including directing light at the biological sample and receiving that light; directing the light at a reference reflecting device (46) and receiving that light; ...  
WO/2006/078718
Disclosed is a system (100) including: (i) an interferometer configured to direct test electromagnetic radiation to a test surface (124) and reference electromagnetic radiation to a reference surface (122) and subsequently combine the el...  
WO/2006/077106
A spectral-domain optical coherence tomography system using a cross-dispersed spectrometer is disclosed. The interfered optical signal is dispersed by a grating into several orders of diffraction, and these orders of diffraction are sepa...  
WO/2006/078839
Structure profiles from optical interferometric data can be identified by obtaining a plurality of broadband interferometric optical profiles of a structure as a function of structure depth in an axial direction. Each of the plurality of...  
WO/2006/077145
A method of manufacturing an optical element (5) comprises testing an optical surface (3) of the optical element, using an interferometer Ia directing measuring light (23a) onto the optical surface wherein the measuring light traverses t...  
WO/2006/076302
Some embodiments of the disclosed surface patterning systems and methods utilize a surface patterning tool coupled to a support and adapted to deposit material onto a substrate, a controller, and first, second, and third actuators electr...  
WO/2006/075190
A spectrum Fourier processor comprising, an input for receiving light from a light source, an output, an optical splitter for receiving light from an input source and splitting the light into two coherent sources, means for focusing the ...  
WO/2006/075052
The test system includes an electronic device comprising a camera (202) for forming an image (310) on a detector (208). A holographic element (300) of the test system and the camera (202) under test of the electronic device are arranged ...  
WO/2006/074412
An intelligent coating system for forming a product on at least a portion of a substrate is disclosed. The intelligent coating system includes a coating applicator, a thickness monitor, a multiple-axis device, and, optionally, at least o...  
WO/2006/071322
A goniometer for measuring an angle of a surface of an object is provided. The goniometer includes a frame with an engagement element configured for engaging the object. A laser generator is carried by the frame and is configured for emi...  
WO/2006/068875
An optical device under test (DUT) is interferometrically measured. The DUT can include one or more of an optical fiber, an optical component, or an optical system. First interference pattern data for the DUT is obtained for a first path...  
WO/2006/068217
Three-dimensional shape measuring instrument (white interferometer) for measuring the three-dimensional shape of an object to be measured by using white interference fringes, which detects the position where the ampliture of the white in...  
WO/2006/065772
An optical fiber sensor (16, 50) is provided for displacement measurement, pressure measurement, refractive index measurement, bio/chemical detection, and/or microscopy.  
WO/2006/066135
A surface inspection system, as well as related components and methods, are provided. The surface inspection system includes a beam source subsystem, a beam scanning subsystem, a workpiece movement subsystem, an optical collection and de...  
WO/2006/065576
A Raman scattering spectrographic analyzer wherein a microscope objective is adapted to view single bio-specimens on a substrate having monodispersed-sized metal particles. A defined wavelength of radiation is applied through the microsc...  
WO/2006/065772
An optical fiber sensor (16, 50) is provided for displacement measurement, pressure measurement, refractive index measurement, bio/chemical detection, and/or microscopy.  
WO/2006/058735
A system, method and apparatus for anatomical mapping utilizing optical coherence tomography. In the present invention, 3-dimensional fundus intensity imagery can be acquired from a scanning of light back-reflected from an eye. The scann...  
WO/2006/058049
Conventional endoscopic OCT suffers from a decreased signal to noise ratio because the separated measuring and reference pathes are affected by different influences. The present invention overcomes these problems by substantially combini...  

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