Patents Assigned to BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA, FO
  • Patent number: 9628682
    Abstract: A camera concurrently produces an orthographic map and map spectral content. Illumination from an image passes through a phase modulator and the resulting rotating photo-flux phase is converted to an electrical signal by multiple adjacent sensors of detectors of array of detectors. The amount of unwanted illumination reaching the sensors is reduced by a set of baffles that shield and protect the transducers from unwanted out-of-field light and other light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, fo
    Inventors: David B. Pollock, Patrick J. Reardon
  • Patent number: 9404861
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to metal or dielectric nanostructures of the subwavelength scale within the grating lines of optical diffraction gratings. The nanostructures have surface plasmon resonances or non-plasmon optical resonances. A linear photodetector array is used to capture the resonance spectra from one of the diffraction orders. The combined nanostructure super-grating and photodetector array eliminates the use of external optical spectrometers for measuring surface plasmon or optical resonance frequency shift caused by the presence of chemical and biological agents. The nanostructure super-gratings can be used for building integrated surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectrometers. The nanostructures within the diffraction grating lines enhance Raman scattering signal light while the diffraction grating pattern of the nanostructures diffracts Raman scattering light to different directions of propagation according to their wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA, FO
    Inventor: Junpeng Guo