Agile lensing-based non-contact liquid level optical sensor for extreme environments

Optics Communications

Volumn 283, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 3391-3397

  Reza, Syed Azer ^a   Riza, Nabeel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM SPOT SIZE; CONTROLLED VARIABLES; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE; ENGINE OIL; EXTREME ENVIRONMENT; FOCAL LENGTH CALIBRATION; INTENSITY PROFILES; LASER WAVELENGTH; LIQUID LEVEL; LIQUID SURFACE; LOW POWER; NON-CONTACT; OPTICAL BEAMS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SPATIAL INTENSITY; TECHNOLOGY-BASED;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; LUBRICATING OILS; SENSORS; VEGETABLE OILS;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 77953650818     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2010.03.043     Document Type: Article

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