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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 19, 2019
Applicant:

Optores Gmbh, Munich, DE;

Inventors:

Robert Huber, Lübeck, DE;

Wolfgang Draxinger, Lübeck, DE;

Tom Pfeiffer, Lübeck, DE;

Assignee:

OPTORES GMBH, Munich, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 9/02 (2006.01); A61B 3/10 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G01B 9/02091 (2022.01); G01B 9/02004 (2022.01); G01B 9/02055 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 9/02091 (2013.01); A61B 3/10 (2013.01); A61B 5/7203 (2013.01); A61B 5/7257 (2013.01); G01B 9/02004 (2013.01); G01B 9/02041 (2013.01); G01B 9/02069 (2013.01); G01B 9/02083 (2013.01); A61B 5/0066 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0223 (2013.01); G01B 2290/60 (2013.01); G01B 2290/65 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method comprises: splitting laser light into sample light, reference light, and monitor light; routing the reference light into a reference arm of an OCT interferometer; routing the monitor light into a monitor device, which generates at least one optical monitor signal representing at least one time-dependent property of the monitor light; generating at least one electric monitor signal from the at least one optical monitor signal; illuminating in a point-shaped manner a sample with sample light, wherein the illumination point is guided on the surface of the sample along a predetermined trajectory; superimposing the light scattered by the sample with the reference light emerging from the reference arm to generate an electric OCT signal; wherein the at least one electric monitor signal and the electric OCT signal are AD-converted in alternating sequence, in each case equidistantly in time, to form a single digital data stream.


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