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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2016
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Femtometrix, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Jeffrey H. Hunt, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Jianing Shi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
John Paul Changala, Tustin, CA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
Surface sensing systems and methods for imaging a scanned surface of a sample via sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy are disclosed herein. The systems include a sample holder, a visible light source configured to direct a visible light beam incident upon a sampled location of the scanned surface and a tunable IR source configured to direct a tunable IR beam coincident with the visible light beam upon the sampled location. The systems also include a scanning structure configured to scan the visible light beam and the tunable IR beam across the scanned surface, and a light filter configured to receive an emitted beam from the scanned surface and to filter the emitted beam to generate a filtered light beam. The systems further include a light detection system configured to receive the filtered light beam, and an alignment structure. The methods include methods of operating the systems.