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Search Patents by William Alexander Osborn

Patents listed here reflect only technologies patented from FY 2018-present. To view all of NIST's patented technologies, visit the NIST pages on the Federal Laboratory Consortium website.

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Photothermal Actuation of Vibrations for Measurements Using Laser Doppler Vibrometers

NIST Inventors

William Alexander Osborn

The invention is an apparatus and process for measuring a vibration spectra of a sample using pulses of light to make a sample vibrate without touching it. A Laser Doppler Vibrometer (LDV) then measures these vibrations by detecting reflected light. The setup includes a special mirror and filters

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