Optics: measuring and testing – Velocity or velocity/height measuring – With light detector
Patent
1980-05-21
1981-08-18
Buczinski, S. C.
Optics: measuring and testing
Velocity or velocity/height measuring
With light detector
324 77B, 324 77H, 324 77J, 328140, G01P 336, G01R 2316, H03K 500
Patent
active
042843510
ABSTRACT:
A method of, and apparatus for, processing a digital electric signal composed of a train of discrete uniformly or non-uniformly shaped pulses to recover spectral information contained in the spacings between the pulses, in which the digital signal is applied to a SAW spectrum analyzer arranged to produce output signals the envelopes of which represent the power spectrum over a selected frequency range of constituent sample lengths of the digital signal, and the required spectral information then derived from these output signals, for example by integration thereof over a period of time.
The technique may be used in conjunction with a laser Doppler velocity measurement system in which each pulse of the digital signal represents the detection of a photon scattered from a moving object or particle in a scattering volume illuminated by laser light, the spacing between the pulses containing information regarding the velocity of movement of the object or particles under observation.
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Alldritt Michael
Jones Robin
Oliver Christopher J.
Vaughan John M.
Buczinski S. C.
National Research Development Corporation
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