A remote, non-destructive laser ultrasonic material evaluation system with simplified optical fibre interferometer detection

Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 75-83

  Wang, Hsiao Chuan ^a   Fleming, Simon ^a   Lee, Yung Chun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Laser ultrasound; Non destructive evaluation; Remote sensing; Surface acoustic wave

Indexed keywords

CYLINDRICAL LENS; FOCUSED LASER; LASER ULTRASONIC; LASER ULTRASOUND; MANOEUVRABILITY; MATERIAL EVALUATION; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; METAL STRUCTURES; NON DESTRUCTIVE; NON-CONTACT; NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION; OPTICAL FIBRE; SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE; SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES; SURFACE MATERIALS; SURFACE WAVE DISPERSION; THEORETICAL SIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; ACOUSTOELECTRIC EFFECTS; CURVE FITTING; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; REMOTE SENSING; STRUCTURAL METALS; SURFACE WAVES; SURFACES; TANKERS (SHIPS); TESTING; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONICS; WATER WAVES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

EID: 67449101440     PISSN: 01959298     EISSN: 15734862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10921-009-0049-5     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Kundu, T. (ed.): Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation: Engineering and Biological Material Characterization. CRC Press, Boca Raton (2004)
2. Schneider, D., Schultrich, B., Scheibe, H.J., Ziegele, H., Griepentrog, M.: A laser-acoustic method for testing and classifying hard surface layers. Thin Solid Films 332 (1-2), 157-163 (1998)
3. Glorieux, C., Gao, W., Kruger, S.E., Van de Rostyne, K., Lauriks, W., Thoen, J.: Surface acoustic wave depth profiling of elastically inhomogeneous materials. J. Appl. Phys. 88 (7), 4394-4400 (2000)
4. Scruby, C.S., Drain, L.E.: Laser Ultrasonics: Techniques and Applications. Hilger, Bristol (1990)
5. Neubrand, A., Hess, P.: Laser generation and detection of surface acoustic waves: Elastic properties of surface layers. J. Appl. Phys. 71 (1), 227-238 (1991)
6. Telschow, K.L.: Material property measurement in hostile environments using laser acoustics. IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium (2004)
7. Monchalin, J.: Optical detection of ultrasound. IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control UFFC-33 (5), 485-499 (1986)
8. Dewhurst, R.J., Shan, Q.: Optical remote measurement of ultrasound. Meas. Sci. Technol. 10, R139-R168 (1999)
9. Murfin, A.S., Soden, R.A.J., Hatrick, D., Dewhurst, R.J.: Laser-ultrasound detection systems: A comparative study with Rayleigh waves. Meas. Sci. Technol. 11, 1208-1219 (2000)
10. Buck, J.A.: Fundamentals of Optical Fibers, 2nd edn. Wiley-IEEE Press, New York (2004)
11. Agrawal, G.P.: Nonlinear Fiber Optics, 3rd edn. Academic Press, San Diego (2004)
12. Mitra, B., Shelamoff, A., Booth, D.J.: An optical fibre interferometer for remote detection of laser generated ultrasonics. Meas. Sci. Technol. 9, 1432-1436 (1998)
13. Bruinsma, A.J.A., Vogel, J.A.: Ultrasonic noncontact inspection system with optical fiber methods. Appl. Opt. 27 (22), 4690-4695 (1988)
14. Dudderar, T.D., Burger, C.P., Gilbert, J.A., Smith, J.A., Peters, B.R.: Fiber optic sensing for ultrasonic NDE. J. Nondestr. Eval. 6 (3), 135-146 (1987)
15. Park, H.S., Thursby, G., Culshaw, B.: Detection of laser-generated ultrasound based on phase demodulation technique using a fibre Fabry-Perot interferometer. Meas. Sci. Technol. 16, 1261-1266 (2005)
16. Dorighi, J.F., Krishnaswamy, S., Achenbach, J.D.: Stabilization of an embedded fiber optic Fabry-Perot sensor for ultrasound detection. IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 42 (5), 820-824 (1995)
17. Jang, T.S., Lee, S.S., Kwon, B., Lee, J., Lee, J.J.: Noncontact detection of ultrasonic waves using fiber optic sagnac interferometer. IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 49 (6), 767-775 (2002)
18. Fomitchov, P.A., Krishnaswamy, S., Achenbach, J.D.: Extrinsic and intrinsic fiber optic Sagnac ultrasound sensors. Opt. Eng. 39 (7), 1972-1984 (2000)
19. Achenbach, J.D.: Wave Propagation in Elastic Solids. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam (1984)
20. Rose, J.L.: Ultrasonic Waves in Solid Media. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1999)
21. Davies, S.J., Edwards, C., Taylor, G.S., Palmer, S.B.: Laser-generated ultrasound: Its properties, mechanisms and multifarious applications. J. Phys. D, Appl. Phys. 26 (3), 329-348 (1993)
22. Achenbach, J.D.: Laser excitation of surface wave motion. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 51 (11), 1885-1902 (2003)
23. Arias, I., Achenbach, J.D.: Thermoelastic generation of ultrasound by line-focused laser irradiation. Int. J. Solids Struct. 40 (25), 6917-6935 (2003)
24. Royer, D., Chenu, C.: Experimental and theoretical waveforms of Rayleigh waves generated by a thermoelastic laser line source. Ultrasonics 38 (9), 891-895 (2000)
25. Becker, P.C., Olsson, N.A.: Erbium-doped Fiber Amplifiers: Fundamentals and Technology. Academic Press, San Diego (1999)
26. Wang, H.C., Fleming, S., Lee, Y.C.: Ultrasonic wave detection using a simple design of optical fibre interferometer. In: OECC/ACOFT, Sydney, Australia (2008)
27. Wang, H.C., Fleming, S., Lee, Y.C.: Simple, all-optical, noncontact, depth-selective, narrowband surface acoustic wave measurement system for evaluating the Rayleigh velocity of small samples or areas. Appl. Opt. 48 (8), 1444-1451 (2009)
28. Schneider, D., Schwarz, T.: A photoacoustic method for characerising thin films. Surf. Coat. Technol. 91 (1-2), 136-146 (1997)
29. Schneider, D., Witke, T., Schwarz, T., Schoneich, B., Schultrich, B.: Testing ultra-thin films by laser-acoustics. Surf. Coat. Technol. 126 (2-3), 136-141 (2000)
30. Wu, T.T., Chen, Y.C.: Dispersion of laser generated surface waves in an epoxy-bonded layered medium. Ultrasonics 34 (8), 793-799 (1996)
31. Briggs, A.: Acoustic Microscopy. Clarendon Press, Oxford (1992)