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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:
Jun. 02, 2026

Filed:

Nov. 20, 2023
Applicant:

Government of the United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of Commerce, Gaithersburg, MD (US);

Inventor:

Young Jong Lee, Gaithersburg, MD (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 3/42 (2006.01); G01J 3/02 (2006.01); G01J 3/433 (2006.01); G01N 21/31 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 3/433 (2013.01); G01J 3/0229 (2013.01); G01N 21/3103 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of determining an optical spectrum for a sample substance includes splitting a source beam into a reference beam and a sample beam, periodically modulating the intensity of the beams out of phase of each other, directing the reference beam through a reference substance and the sample beam through the sample substance. The beams are then recombined, and a single detector detects the intensity difference at the modulation frequency to determine the spectrum of the sample substance.


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