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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:
Mar. 04, 2014

Filed:

Jan. 15, 2010
Applicants:

Dominique Pagnoux, Limoges, FR;

Frédéric Louradour, Eymoutiers, FR;

Jérôme Desroches, Limoges, FR;

Alain Barthelemy, Limoges, FR;

Julien Brevier, Saint-Junien, FR;

Inventors:

Dominique Pagnoux, Limoges, FR;

Frédéric Louradour, Eymoutiers, FR;

Jérôme Desroches, Limoges, FR;

Alain Barthelemy, Limoges, FR;

Julien Brevier, Saint-Junien, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 4/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The invention relates to a method and to a device for determining a piece of polarisation information on a measurement point of a target sample, the device comprising: —a light source capable of emitting a rectilinearly polarised light beam in a predefined direction, the light beam being intended to be reflected by the measurement point of the target sample; —a unit for computing the piece of polarisation information on the measurement point using the beam reflected by the target sample; -a waveguide for guiding the incident beam towards the target sample and the reflected beam towards the computing means; and —a unit for rotating the polarisation, capable of rotating two orthogonal polarimetric components of the incident beam exiting the waveguide and two orthogonal polarimetric components of the reflected beam before passing through the waveguide.


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