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Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2014

Filed:

Dec. 18, 2012
Applicant:

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);

Inventors:

William R. Christian, Newbury Park, CA (US);

Ray C. Delcher, Oxnard, CA (US);

Tong Chen, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Mohsen Khoshnevisan, Newbury Park, CA (US);

Phillip B. Liescheski, Lincoln, NE (US);

Michael A. Metcalf, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01P 5/26 (2006.01); G01S 7/493 (2006.01); G01S 7/481 (2006.01); G01S 7/491 (2006.01); G01S 17/58 (2006.01); G01S 7/497 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01P 5/26 (2013.01); G01S 7/493 (2013.01); G01S 7/4812 (2013.01); G01S 2007/4977 (2013.01); G01S 7/497 (2013.01); G01S 7/4916 (2013.01); G01S 17/58 (2013.01);
Abstract

A laser Doppler velocimeter uses self-mixing amplification of backreflections from scatterers below the surface of a flow. A time domain signal is divided into segments that are roughly equal to a transit time of particles through a focus of a laser beam. The segments are connected to a frequency domain through the use of an FFT algorithm to produce frequency domain data segments. Signal-to-noise ratio is enhanced through signal processing techniques using the segments to produce a final enhanced signal spectrum.


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