Temperature-sensitive phosphors offer an option of accurate contactless temperature measurement. The method can be applied to a wide temperature range and up to more than 1500 K. In the current paper, phosphor thermometry based on four rare earths doped in YAG was studied. The standard excitation of thermographic phosphors is carried out with a Nd : YAG laser often at 355 or 266 nm. We examined the temperature dependent luminescence at an excitation wavelength of 405 nm. The excitation with visible blue light offers two main advantages: the excitation sources are rather cheap and they involve less safety issues. Accordingly, a variety of new application of such remote-thermometry would be possible. The results show that YAG : Dy and YAG : Sm may be well utilized for phosphor thermometry excited by a 405 nm diode laser.

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In this paper, we present dual-channel lock-in phosphor thermometry, which offers an option of accurate and contactless temperature determination under high environmental noise. We studied YAG:Dy as thermographic phosphor at an excitation wavelength of 405 nm. We tested our approach under different experimental conditions with noise levels of about 550, 1060 and 2190 times larger than the excitation signal. With the dual-channel lock-in setup, we were able to suppress the strong noise in all cases and to reliably determine surface temperature using our optical measurements (error  <  10 K). Additionally, the effect of signal to noise ratio, lock-in frequency and lock-in bandwidth on temperature determination accuracy was studied in this work.

In this investigation, we present a surface temperature determination method based on the luminescence characteristics of Ba3MgSi2O8:Eu2+, Mn2+. Simple optics utilizing only one RGB scientific CMOS camera makes this measurement technique easily applicable. Four different imaging methods were developed and are presented together with the corresponding calibration curves. We successfully utilized the methods to take a surface temperature distribution image on glass plates with a point heat source between them.