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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2009
Stephen K. Wilcken, Des Moines, WA (US);
Stephen K. Wilcken, Des Moines, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A device for making spectroscopy measurements with reduced or eliminated surface reflections is provided, the device including an elongated member including an outermost opaque thin walled enclosure; an optically transparent thin-walled enclosure adjacent an inner surface of said outermost thin walled enclosure; one or more optical fibers centrally and axially disposed and spaced apart a distance B with respect to the optically transparent thin-walled enclosure; wherein the elongated member is adapted to be coupled to a spectrometer and an illumination source to provide a light signal from the illumination source along said optically transparent thin-walled enclosure and collect a scattered light signal from the sample by said one or more optical fibers to provide to the spectrometer.