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Optical data transformation

  • US 8,525,995 B2
  • Filed: 06/16/2010
  • Issued: 09/03/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus, comprising:

  • a housing having a cavity and attachable adjacent to an external surface of a down hole pipe having an internal fluid-flow region;

    an optical calculation device located at least partially within the housing cavity, the optical calculation device including;

    a light source;

    an internal reflectance element configured to receive light from the light source and allow the light to interact with a fluid in the internal fluid-flow region to produce interacted energy; and

    at least one multivariate optical element to receive the interacted energy and to optically compress data carried by the interacted energy into at least one orthogonal component;

    a detector to generate an electrical intensity output signal responsive to the at least one orthogonal component, the signal associated with a value corresponding to a property of the fluid in the internal fluid-flow region; and

    a wire or telemetry apparatus to transmit the signal to a remote surface computer.

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