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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2011
John A. Moon, Wallingford, CT (US);
David R. Fournier, Northborough, MA (US);
Martin A. Putnam, Cheshire, CT (US);
Alan D Kersey, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Tuo LI, East Lynne, CT (US);
John A. Moon, Wallingford, CT (US);
David R. Fournier, Northborough, MA (US);
Martin A. Putnam, Cheshire, CT (US);
Alan D Kersey, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Tuo Li, East Lynne, CT (US);
Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
An optical reader system including a source light assembly that has a code-reading beam and a fluorescence-excitation beam that are configured to illuminate encoded substrates. The substrates have optically readable codes that provide output signals when the code-reading beam is incident thereon. The output signals are indicative of the codes. The reader system also includes a fluorescence detector that is configured to detect fluorescent signals from the substrates and code pickup optics that are configured to project the output signals from the optically readable codes onto a Fourier plane. The reader system also includes a code detector that is positioned to detect the output signals in the Fourier plane.