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Michael A. Lyons

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1383
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121
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177

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17/143826
Wide-area quantitative phase microscopy using spatial phase scanning digital holography Jan 6, 2021 Issued
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17/753479
Method and apparatus for measuring three-dimensional refractive index tensor Jan 6, 2021 Issued
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17/140558
Phase cancellation microscopy Jan 3, 2021 Issued
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17/128942
Optical device for measuring power of test light and optical device testing method Dec 20, 2020 Issued
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17/129252
Mach-Zehnder interferometer with mirrored facet Dec 20, 2020 Issued
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17/127972
Collector for collecting particles in air and a device for detecting particles in air Dec 17, 2020 Issued
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17/757048
Frequency shifter for heterodyne interferometry measurements and device for heterodyne interferometry measurements having such a frequency shifter Dec 10, 2020 Issued
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17/757037
Optical device for heterodyne interferometry Dec 10, 2020 Issued
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17/114548
Visual quality assessment augmentation employing holographic interferometry Dec 7, 2020 Issued
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17/112583
Wavelength reference device Dec 3, 2020 Issued
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17/781594
Method and system for determining the local position of at least one optical element in a machine for laser processing of a material, using low-coherence optical interferometry techniques Dec 3, 2020 Issued
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17/781749
Method and system for determining the position of an element of an optical system in an assembly for processing or measuring an object, as well as the position of said object relative to said assembly, by parallel interferometric measurements Dec 3, 2020 Issued
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17/110419
Method and system for determining the separation distance between a body and the surface of an object by means of low coherence optical interferometry techniques under distortion due to sub-sampling Dec 2, 2020 Issued
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17/102503
Measuring assembly for the frequency-based determination of the position of a component Nov 23, 2020 Issued
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17/103662
Ring waveguide based integrated photonics optical gyroscope with gain tuning for enhanced performance Nov 23, 2020 Issued
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17/101094
Three dimensional (3D) imaging using optical coherence factor (OCF) Nov 22, 2020 Issued
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16/953994
Optical sensor Nov 19, 2020 Issued
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17/088115
Movable body apparatus, moving method, exposure apparatus, exposure method, flat-panel display manufacturing method, and device manufacturing method Nov 2, 2020 Issued
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17/087238
Method and device for superresolution optical measurement using singular optics Nov 1, 2020 Issued
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17/773115
In-line angular optical multi-point scatterometry for nanomanufacturing systems Oct 29, 2020 Issued
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