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Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volume 2, Issue 1, January–March 1981, Pages 33-55
Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Influence of out-of-plane deformation and its elimination in white light speckle photography

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present the white light speckle method as a practical tool in metrology and to search for the optimum conditions for its application. In particular, the study provides evidence that the white light speckle technique is not exclusively sensitive to the in-plane components of displacement. Consequently, the interpretation of the Young's fringes as pure in-plane fringes is prone to inaccurate measurements. The errors so introduced are systematically analysed for various optical parameters. Some practical considerations are then pointed out to aid in the design of an error-tolerance limited white light displacement measurement system to suit a particular need. two complementary techniques are next proposed which promise to eliminate the influence of the out-of-plane movements on the measurement of the lateral components of displacement. The proposed methods not only allow an increase in the accuracy of in-plane measurements, but also permit mapping of the out-of-plane movements undergone by the object surface. The techniques presented, apply equally to coherent speckle photography where the same problems are manifest, and should pave the way for the application of these methods to concrete engineering problems.

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