Patent 7256879 was granted and assigned to Corning Incorporated on August, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An array tester (10) characterizes individual ones (111) of a semiconductor devices of an array (11) based on polarization-resolving an optical far-field measurement of the individual chips (111) as a function of angular position. Two pairs of TM and TE detectors (41a-b and 42a-b) or one pair displaceable by ninety degrees, move in vertical and horizontal arc paths or fixed around a fixed position of a selected device of an array to sample the far-fields.