Multipoint photonic doppler velocimetry using optical lens elements
Patent
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OSTI ID:1130049
A probe including a fisheye lens is disclosed to measure the velocity distribution of a moving surface along many lines of sight. Laser light, directed to the surface and then reflected back from the surface, is Doppler shifted by the moving surface, collected into fisheye lens, and then directed to detection equipment through optic fibers. The received light is mixed with reference laser light and using photonic Doppler velocimetry, a continuous time record of the surface movement is obtained. An array of single-mode optical fibers provides an optic signal to an index-matching lens and eventually to a fisheye lens. The fiber array flat polished and coupled to the index-matching lens using index-matching gel. Numerous fibers in a fiber array project numerous rays through the fisheye lens which in turn project many measurement points at numerous different locations to establish surface coverage over a hemispherical shape with very little crosstalk.
- Research Organization:
- National Security Technologies, LLC, Las Vegas, NV (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25946
- Assignee:
- National Security Technologies, LLC (Las Vegas, NV)
- Patent Number(s):
- 8,711,336
- Application Number:
- 13/666,953
- OSTI ID:
- 1130049
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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