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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2010
Filed:
May. 21, 2009
Applicant:
Philip Robert Leblanc, Corning, NY (US);
Inventor:
Philip Robert LeBlanc, Corning, NY (US);
Assignee:
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 11/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of measuring the topography of a large, thin, non-flat specular substrate in a production environment with minimal movement of a majority of the measurement apparatus. A gimbal-mounted reflecting element is used to steer a short coherence length probe beam such that the probe beam is substantially perpendicular to a local surface of the substrate. The probe beam and the reference beam are combined and the resulting interference pattern used to characterize defects on the local surface.