The ability to see behind flames is a key challenge for the industrial field and particularly for the safety field. Development of new technologies to detect live people through smoke and flames in fire scenes is an extremely desirable goal since it can save human lives. The latest technologies, including equipment adopted by fire departments, use infrared bolometers for infrared digital cameras that allow users to see through smoke. However, such detectors are blinded by flame-emitted radiation. Here we show a completely different approach that makes use of lensless digital holography technology in the infrared range for successful imaging through smoke and flames. Notably, we demonstrate that digital holography with a cw laser allows the recording of dynamic human-size targets. In this work, easy detection of live, moving people is achieved through both smoke and flames, thus demonstrating the capability of digital holography at 10.6 μm.

Imaging live humans through smoke and flames using far-infrared digital holography / M. Locatelli; E. Pugliese; M. Paturzo; V. Bianco; A. Finizio; A. Pelagotti; P. Poggi; L. Miccio; R. Meucci; P. Ferraro. - In: OPTICS EXPRESS. - ISSN 1094-4087. - STAMPA. - (2013), pp. 5379-5390.

Imaging live humans through smoke and flames using far-infrared digital holography

LOCATELLI, MASSIMILIANO;PUGLIESE, EUGENIO;MEUCCI, RICCARDO;
2013

Abstract

The ability to see behind flames is a key challenge for the industrial field and particularly for the safety field. Development of new technologies to detect live people through smoke and flames in fire scenes is an extremely desirable goal since it can save human lives. The latest technologies, including equipment adopted by fire departments, use infrared bolometers for infrared digital cameras that allow users to see through smoke. However, such detectors are blinded by flame-emitted radiation. Here we show a completely different approach that makes use of lensless digital holography technology in the infrared range for successful imaging through smoke and flames. Notably, we demonstrate that digital holography with a cw laser allows the recording of dynamic human-size targets. In this work, easy detection of live, moving people is achieved through both smoke and flames, thus demonstrating the capability of digital holography at 10.6 μm.
2013
5379
5390
M. Locatelli; E. Pugliese; M. Paturzo; V. Bianco; A. Finizio; A. Pelagotti; P. Poggi; L. Miccio; R. Meucci; P. Ferraro
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