The analysis of the transmission-type optical smoke detector threshold sensitivity to the high rate temperature variations

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 80-85

  Aleksić, Željko J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Detectors; Infrared transducers; Sensitivity; Stability; Temperature

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SOURCES; LOW PASS FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SMOKE DETECTORS; TEMPERATURE; TRANSDUCERS;

INFRARED TRANSDUCERS; OPTICAL SMOKE DETECTOR; OPTOELECTRONIC DIODES; SMOKE ABSORPTION INDEX; THRESHOLD SENSITIVITY;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0742301749     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2003.822196     Document Type: Article

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