General Electric Company

Willam Scott Sutherland

Glenn Scott Claydon

Shankar Chandrasekaran

Anis Zribi

Sandip Maity

Stacey Joy Kennerly

Victor Donald Samper

Marko Klaus Baller

Min-Yi Shih

Shivappa Ningappa Goravar

Ayan Banerjee

David Cecil Hays

Long Que

Dirk Lange

A system and method for managing optical power for controlling thermal alteration of a sample undergoing spectroscopic analysis is provided. The system includes a moveable laser beam generator for irradiating the sample and a beam shaping device for moving and shaping the laser beam to prevent thermal overload or build up in the sample. The moveable laser beam generator includes at least one beam shaping device selected from the group consisting of at least one optical lens, at least one optical diffractor, at least one optical path difference modulator, at least one moveable mirror, at least one Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) integrated circuit (IC), and/or a liquid droplet. The system also includes an at least two degree of freedom (2 DOF) moveable substrate platform and a controller for controlling the laser beam generator and the substrate platform, and for analyzing light reflected from the sample.

System and method for optical power management

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Haverhill, MA, United States of America

Willam Scott Sutherland