Optical techniques for real-time penetration monitoring for laser welding

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 3869-3876

  Bardin, Fabrice ^a   Cobo, Adolfo ^b   Lopez Higuera, Jose M ^b   Collin, Olivier ^c   Aubry, Pascal ^d   Dubois, Thierry ^d   Högström, Mats ^e   Nylen, Per ^e   Jonsson, Peter ^f   Jones, Julian D C ^a   Hand, Duncan P ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^c SNECMA   (France)

^d Ecl Natl Sup d'Arts et Metiers   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY WEST   (Sweden)

^f VOLVO AERO CORPORATION   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DEMODULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT EMISSION; OSCILLATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTODIODES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INTENSITY PROFILE; OPTICAL TECHNIQUES; PHOTODIODE SIGNALS; REAL-TIME PENETRATION;

LASER BEAM WELDING;

EID: 22144482712     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.003869     Document Type: Article

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