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Method and apparatus for use of polarized light vectors in identifying and evaluating constituent compounds in a specimen

  • US 5,956,144 A
  • Filed: 11/22/1995
  • Issued: 09/21/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/03/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A device for spectral polarimetric analysis of a test specimen, comprising:

  • irradiating means for irradiating a test specimen with partially polarized, spectral primary radiation, said irradiating means being placed at a first position;

    first polarizing means located at a second position spatially separated from said first position, and oriented for receiving, as a specimen-polarized/specimen-transmitted first radiation subset, that portion of said primary radiation as is transmitted and polarized by said test specimen, and for selectively transmitting, as a second radiation subset of said primary radiation, that portion of said specimen-polarized/specimen-transmitted first radiation subset as resides in a plurality of first polarizing means primary polarization planes; and

    first radiation intensity measuring means operably positioned relative to said first polarizing means for receiving and measuring the radiation intensity of said second radiation subset at each of a plurality of wave-lengths for each of said plurality of said first polarizing means primary polarization planes.

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