Stabilized and accelerated speckle strain gauge

Ichirou Yamaguchi; Tamiki Takemori; Koichi Kobayashi

doi:10.1117/12.61043

1 March 1993 Stabilized and accelerated speckle strain gauge

Ichirou Yamaguchi, Tamiki Takemori, Koichi Kobayashi

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 32, Issue 3, (March 1993). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.61043

Abstract

We have improved the stability and temporal response of the laser speckle strain gauge that detects strain from speckle displacement caused by surface deformation. In the gauge, a narrow laser beam is incident on a diffuse surface, and speckle patterns appearing in the light scattered through the symmetrical angles are detected by a pair of linear image sensors. Speckle displacement is derived by a real-time correlator as the peak of the cross correlation between the current frame and a reference frame of the sensor driven at 1000 frames per second. The reference frame is fixed until the correlation peak becomes lower than a threshold. Using a pair of image sensors, followed by the correlators, and a laser of output power of a few tens of milliwatts, we could measure dynamic strain of polymer films at the frequency between a fraction of hertz and 100 Hz. The resolution of the gauge, which only depends on geometry of the optical system and the sensor pitch, is a few tens of microstrains. The upper limit of the measurement can be extended arbitrarily because small incremental strain is integrated.

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Ichirou Yamaguchi, Tamiki Takemori, and Koichi Kobayashi "Stabilized and accelerated speckle strain gauge," Optical Engineering 32(3), (1 March 1993). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.61043

Published: 1 March 1993

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