Ocean Optics, Inc. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120188661 | ASTIGMATISM COMPENSATION IN SPECTROMETERS USING NON-SPHERICAL MIRRORS - This disclosure describes a method of using specially shaped mirrors for astigmatism correction in spectrometers having a folded optical path. | 07-26-2012 |
20120188542 | SHAPED INPUT APERTURES TO IMPROVE RESOLUTION IN GRATING SPECTROMETERS - This disclosure describes an aperture shaped to provide a narrow beam in the horizontal plane but a wider beam in the vertical plane that will provide improved image quality in spectrometers. | 07-26-2012 |
20120188541 | NOVEL SPECTROMETER DESIGN FOR ABERRATION CORRECTION, SIMPLIFIED MANUFACTURE, AND COMPACT FOOTPRINT - This disclosure describes a spectrometer design that corrects aberration by using crossed optical paths, simplifies manufacture by applying the light entrance slit and aperture on opposite sides of a transparent input block, and creates a more compact footprint by placing a 45 degree mirror or right angle prism directly in front of the detector. | 07-26-2012 |
20110176769 | Spherical optical splitter/combiner - This disclosure describes a device that belongs to the field of optical devices. More specifically it is a novel way of achieving light splitting or combining using a spherical reflector with a single input and multiple outputs, or multiple inputs and a single output. | 07-21-2011 |
20090189513 | LED using thin film dichroic filters - An improved LED using patterned coated dichroic filters. More specifically a method for placing, during the wafer fabrication, patterned dichroic filters between the LED chip and phosphor layer to increase luminous efficiency and lower thermal load, and/or over the phosphor layer for spectral shaping and reduction of color temperature shift with viewing angle. | 07-30-2009 |
20090028756 | Patches for non-intrusive monitoring of oxygen in packages - This disclosure describes an Oxygen sensing patch that can be attached to the interior surface of packages for oxygen interrogation inside the package. The Oxygen sensing patch is integrated into the inside of the package during the packaging manufacturing process and, when used with a blue LED and fluorometer, will quantitatively report the amount of oxygen in the package. The Oxygen sensing patch is suitable for measuring oxygen in gas, such as headspace applications, and in liquid. Oxygen is sensed by measuring the phase shift of fluorescence of the fluorophore immobilized in the Oxygen sensing patch. The patch can be non-intrusively interrogated by a light source. The interrogation can be done using a phase fluorometer where oxygen level is desired, or inspected visually for color change using a hand held blue LED. | 01-29-2009 |
20080199360 | Method and composition for a platinum embedded sol gel optical chemical sensor with improved sensitivity and chemical stability - A process for manufacturing a material, (medium or matrix) to hold or encapsulate sensing molecules with enhanced sensitivity to oxygen gas and dissolved oxygen by mixing a platinum compound with sol-gel monomers and then coating the tip of an optical fiber is disclosed. The sol-gel polymerizes, trapping the platinum compound in an oxygen permeable glass like solid. The high quenching efficiency of the Pt compound upon oxygen exposure makes the sensor extremely sensitive to oxygen partial pressure variations and also resistant to exposure to hydrocarbons. | 08-21-2008 |