Fiber optic sensor for hydrocarbon leak detection and localization based on transmission/reflection analysis

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4694, Issue , 2002, Pages 341-348

  Spirin, V V ^a   Lopez, R M ^a   Shlyagin, M G ^a   Miridonov, S V ^a   Marquez, I ^a   Kuzin, E A ^b   Beltran Perez, G ^b   Swart, Pieter L ^c  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Distributed fiber optical sensor; Hydrocarbon leak detection; Rayleigh scattering

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; HYDROCARBONS; LEAK DETECTION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; POLYMERS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

BENDING LOSSES; SENSITIVE POLYMERS;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0036380546     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.472639     Document Type: Article

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