Development of a pulsed backscatter-absorption gas-imaging system and its application to the visualization of natural gas leaks

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 3912-3922

  Kulp, Thomas J ^a   Powers, Peter ^a   Kennedy, Randall ^a   Goers, Uta Barbara ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; CAMERAS; CHEMICAL SENSORS; DESIGN; FLOW VISUALIZATION; GAS INDUSTRY; LASER PULSES; LEAKAGE (FLUID); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL GAS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTIMIZATION;

BACKSCATTER ABSORPTION GAS IMAGING; FOCAL PLANE ARRAY; NATURAL GAS LEAKS;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 0032099788     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.003912     Document Type: Article

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