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1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
Optics Letters
|December 11, 2007
Abstract:
We describe a dual-channel optical low-coherence reflectometer for accurate measurement of Doppler angles in highly scattering media. Accurate fluid-flow velocity estimation requires measurement of the Doppler shift and angle. Estimated values of the Doppler angle and average fluid-flow velocity from experimental data are in good agreement with preset values.
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