Novel opportunities for optical level gauging and 3-D-imaging with the photoelectronic mixing device

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 679-684

  Gulden, Peter ^a   Vossiek, Martin ^a   Heide, Patric ^a   Schwarte, Rudolf ^b  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Level gauging; Optical distance measurement; Photoelectronic mixing device (PMD); Time of flight

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTODETECTORS; POSITION MEASUREMENT; REFLECTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

OPTICAL DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL LEVEL GAUGING; PHOTOELECTRONIC MIXING DEVICE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING SYSTEMS; TIME OF FLIGHT;

INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS;

EID: 0036703444     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2002.803086     Document Type: Article

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