Combustor fiberscope
Abstract
A fiberscope of the viewing of the interior of an operating engine combustor is provided with a fused coherent fiber bundle as an image conduit to transmit the image of said interior through the wall of the combustor. Illumination may be provided through the use of a second optical fiber or bundle and a coherent light source aligned with the image conduit.
- Publication:
-
Patent Application Department of the Navy
- Pub Date:
- September 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985padn.reptR....M
- Keywords:
-
- Bundles;
- Combustion Chambers;
- Fiber Optics;
- Engine Parts;
- Images;
- Patent Applications;
- Pipes (Tubes);
- Silicon Dioxide;
- Walls;
- Instrumentation and Photography