At 06:53 PM 11/21/97 -0500, you wrote:
>On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Sean Breheny wrote:
>>
>> Come to think of it, I think I have heard of remote temp. sensors using
>> laser beams. Maybe they use a red laser beam to measure distance and
>> reflectivity (surface nature) and then use these factors to correct the
>> reading from the pyro sensor.
>
>        If you have a laser system that good, why not use Thompson
>scattering to measure the temp?
>

Please excuse my ignorance, but what is Thompson Scattering?

Sean


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