Abstract: An optical interrogator for illuminating an object comprising a laser, a splitter, an optical polarizing element, and an optical recombiner. The laser is configured to generate a laser pulse, which the splitter splits into first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth laser segments such that each of the laser segments are separated by a time delay on the order of nanoseconds between each laser segment. The optical polarizing element is positioned so as to respectively polarize the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth laser segments with a 0° linear polarization, a 45° linear polarization, a 90° linear polarization, a 135° linear polarization, a right-handed, circular polarization (RHCP), and a left-handed, circular polarization (LHCP). The optical recombiner combines the polarized laser segments into a train of co-aligned pulses for illuminating the object.

Abstract: Systems and methods for a method for device discovery performed by a computer device are disclosed, including discovering networked devices and listing the network devices in a first list, enumerating installed devices from system software, listing the enumerated devices in a second list, and merging the lists of discovered and enumerated devices.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for communicating with an image-forming device obtain a tap event that was generated in response to receiving a message from an image-forming device through a communication channel, extract an image-forming-device identifier from the tap event, listen for a device-added event, obtain a device-added event that was generated in response to successfully configuring a computing device to communicate with a newly-added device, extract a newly-added-device identifier from the device-added event, determine that the image-forming device is identical to the newly-added device based on the image-forming-device identifier and on the newly-added-device identifier, and send an image-forming-operation request to the image-forming device in response to determining that the image-forming device is identical to the newly-added device.

Abstract: Systems and methods for a method for device discovery performed by a computer device are disclosed, including discovering networked devices and listing the network devices in a first list, enumerating installed devices from system software, listing the enumerated devices in a second list, and merging the lists of discovered and enumerated devices.