General Electric Company

Eagle Technology, LLC

Harris Corporation

Other

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

J.a. Woollam Co.

Harris Corporation Gcs

Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC

Susanne Madeline Lee

Peter Michael Edic

Forrest Frank Hopkins

Sudeep Mandal

Erin Kathleen Sharma

Christopher A Corey

Fraser R Dalgleish

Eberhard Neuser

Madison A Young

Ertugrul Berkcan

Craig M Herzinger

Douglas Albagli

John Scott Price

Yuri Alexeyevich Plotnikov

Clifford Bueno

Joseph Manak

Aurelie Boudier

Edward James Nieters

Serge Louis Wilfrid Muller

William Robert Ross

Tino Hofmann

Vamshi Krishna Reddy Kommareddy

Sachin Narahari Dekate

Paul Burchell Glaser

Manoharan Venugopal

Ramakrishna Rao

Stefan Schoeche

Majid Nayeri

Vanita Mani

Saratchandra Shanmukh

Kevin Kinsey

James Michael Gent

William Eugene Powell, Iii

Paul Joseph Martin

Raj Bahadur

Daniel Fullager

Alfried Haase

Eberthard Neuser

A method for making an optical fiber device may include using a three-dimensional (3D) printer to generate a preform body including an optical material. The preform body may have a 3D pattern of voids therein defining a 3D lattice. The method may further include drawing the preform body to form the optical fiber device.

Method for making an optical fiber device from a 3D printed preform body and related structures

A radiation detection system may include a radiation source, and a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) radiation detector. The SPR radiation detector may include a structure, a surface plasmon support material on portions of the structure and configured to receive radiation from the radiation source that initiates a surface plasmon at an interface between the structure and the surface plasmon support material, and a probing device coupled to the structure and configured to detect the surface plasmon.

Radiation detection system with surface plasmon resonance detection and related methods

An optical device may include a pinhole array layer having pinhole array apertures therein. The pinhole array layer may have a first side to be directed toward incoming electromagnetic (E/M) radiation, and a second side opposite the first side. The optical device may also include image sensors. Each image sensor may include image sensing pixels adjacent the second side of the pinhole array layer. The optical device may also include mirrors. Each mirror may be associated with a respective image sensor and respective pinhole array aperture defining a camera. Each mirror may reflect incoming E/M radiation passing through the respective pinhole array aperture to the respective image sensor. A respective baffle may be between adjacent cameras.

Optical device including pinhole array aperture and related methods

Materials comprising metamaterials exhibiting form-induced birefringence and anisotropic optical properties are provided. The disclosed articles comprise structures with critical dimensions which are on the order of or smaller than the wavelength for the gigahertz and terahertz spectral range. Methods of preparing same using stereolithography are disclosed. In a further aspect, the disclosed methods pertain to spectroscopic ellipsometry methods comprising a biaxial (orthorhombic) layer homogenization approach is to analyze the terahertz ellipsometric data obtained at three different sample azimuth orientations. The disclosed articles and methods demonstrate provide an avenue to fabricate metamaterials for the terahertz spectral range and allows tailoring of the polarizability and anisotropy of the host material. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.

Methods and materials for metamaterials exhibiting form-induced birefringence

A radiation shielding system for an x-ray digital detector array includes a first radiation shield having a plurality of shielding pads and a plurality of interstices between the plurality of shielding pads, the plurality of shielding pads having a greater thickness than the thickness of the plurality of interstices. The plurality of shielding pads is configured to be positioned over active components of the x-ray digital detector array and the interstices are configured to be positioned over passive components of the x-ray digital detector array.

Radiation shielding system

A measurement system includes a cable having a length, a light source, at least one detector, and at least one processor. The light source is operably coupled to the cable and is configured to transmit an optical signal to the cable. The at least one processor is operably coupled to the cable and configured to: receive a scattered signal from the cable responsive to the optical signal transmitted to the cable; map the scattered signal to the length of the cable; and de-convolve a spatial averaging effect of the scattered signal using a weighting profile corresponding to the light source and the cable to generate a distributed property profile defined along the length of the cable.

Systems and methods for distributed measurement

A well integrity inspection system configured to inspect a well structure including multiple concentric layers. The well integrity inspection system includes an inspection probe positioned in the well structure. The inspection probe includes a plurality of excitation assemblies for transmitting a plurality of radiation emissions into the well structure. The plurality of excitation assemblies includes at least a neutron excitation assembly and an X-ray excitation assembly. The inspection probe also includes a plurality of detection assemblies configured to receive a plurality of backscatter radiation returns from the well structure. The plurality of detection assemblies includes at least a neutron detection assembly and an X-ray detection assembly. The well integrity inspection system further including a processor operatively coupled to the inspection probe. The processor is configured to determine a well integrity parameter of the well structure based on at least one of the plurality of backscatter radiation returns.

Gas well integrity inspection system

A mammograph is provided. The mammograph includes a source of X-rays; a detector of X-rays, the source being configured to emit at least one beam of X-rays to the detector; and an optic control device configured to control the direction of X-rays emitted by the source such that the X-rays emitted by the source are substantially parallel to one another.

Compact mammograph and associated mammography process

Embodiments of the disclosure relate to X-ray imaging systems. In one embodiment, the X-ray imaging system features a target configured to receive a focused electron beam from an electron emitter and emit a line source X-ray beam as a result of receiving the focused electron beam; and a monochromator crystal configured to receive the line source X-ray beam from the target and diffract only a portion of the X-rays, wherein the portion of X-rays satisfies the Bragg diffraction condition for the monochromator crystal, and wherein the monochromator crystal is oriented relative to the target such that the portion of the X-rays from the target that satisfy the Bragg condition illuminate an entire length of a surface of the monochromator crystal.

Laboratory diffraction-based phase contrast imaging technique

In one embodiment, an X-ray source is provided that includes one or more electron emitters configured to emit one or more electron beams and one or more source targets configured to receive the one or more electron beams emitted by the one or more electron emitters and, as a result of receiving the one or more electron beams, to emit X-rays. Each source target of the X-ray source includes a first layer having one or more first materials; and a second layer in thermal communication with the first layer and having one or more second materials. The first layer is positioned closer to the one or more emitters than the second layer, the first material has a higher overall thermal conductivity than the second layer, and the second layer produces the majority of the X-rays emitted by the source target.

Multilayer X-ray source target with high thermal conductivity

A multilayer optic device having an input face and an output face is provided. The optic device includes a high-index material layer having a first real refractive index 1&#x2212;&#x3b4;and a first absorption coefficient &#x3b2;, wherein the core comprises a first surface and a second surface, a low-index material layer having a second real refractive index 1&#x2212;&#x3b4;and a second absorption coefficient &#x3b2;, and a grading zone disposed between the high-index material layer and low-index material layer, the grading zone comprising a grading layer having a third real refractive index 1&#x2212;&#x3b4;and a third absorption coefficient &#x3b2;, such that 1&#x2212;&#x3b4;1&#x3e;1&#x2212;&#x3b4;&#x3e;1&#x2212;&#x3b4;, where at least a portion of one or more of the high-index material layer, the grading zone and the low-index layer comprises one or more corrugations along a first direction.

Multilayer total internal reflection optic devices and methods of making and using the same

An integrated X-ray source is provided. The integrated X-ray source includes a target for emitting X-rays upon being struck by one or more excitation beams, and one or more total internal reflection multilayer optic devices in physical contact with the target to transmit at least a portion of the X rays through total internal reflection to produce X-ray beams, wherein the optic device comprises an input face for receiving the X rays and an output face through which the X-ray beams exit the integrated X-ray source.

Integrated X-ray source having a multilayer total internal reflection optic device

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