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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2008
Applicant:
Paul Berghmans, Heverlee, BE;
Inventor:
Paul Berghmans, Heverlee, BE;
Assignee:
Belgian Electronic Sorting Technology N.V., Heverlee, BE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention relates to a system comprising a broadband optical light source and a sorting device and more specifically to laser sorting devices. The object of the present invention is to provide a system comprising a sorting device with a light-source offering all wavelengths for the sorting process. This is solved by using an all fiber supercontinuum light source.