One -dimensional infrared speckle scans of Ross 614 AB were recorded at a wavelength of 2.2μm. For each scan an estimate of the instantaneous quality of the seeing was calculated and the scan was binned accordingly. The three bins corresponding to the three best seeing conditions were further processed by applying the shift -and -add algorithm to the set of images contained within each bin, thereby generating three shift- and -add images with differing shift -and -add point -spread- functions. After windowing the shift -and -add images (using edge -extension) to reduce the effect of contamination, we have obtained parameters corresponding to the separation and brightness ratio of a two component model of the double star Ross 614 AB by deconvolving the three shift -and -add images with the aid of the zero-and -add technique. Least squares analysis on the positions of the clusters of zeros found from zero- and -add yields a separation of 1.04 arcseconds and a brightness ratio of 4.3 for the binary system at this wavelength. An extension of the processing, which takes explicit account of the nonlinear motion of the scanning mechanism gives improved estimates of 1.04 arcseconds and 3.9 for the separation and brightness ratio, respectively.

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Theory and methods of processing speckle interferometry data from close visual binary stars are presented and implemented. The effects of the optical systems used for observing close visual binary stars are explained and simulated from both the geometrical and physical optical viewpoints. The atmospheric phase distortion and shot noise responsible for the observed speckle patterns are simulated. The deconvolution technique originally presented by Labeyrie is implemented to extract astrometric data from close visual binary stars. This method is applied to both simulated and experimental data from Kitt Peak National Observatory as validation. Parts of the deconvolution process are optimized to allow for near real time calculations in an automated observatory.

Cette thèse résulte d’une collaboration entre le Pr Ayadi de l’Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine et le Pr Varna de l’Université Technologique de Luleå. Depuis 2005, le Professeur Varna a développé une méthode originale qui permet d’obtenir l’ensemble des constantes thermoélastiques d’un stratifié endommagé à partir de deux paramètres : l’ouverture moyenne et le glissement moyen des lèvres des fissures, normalisés par rapport à la contrainte appliquée. Dans cette thèse, nous analysons le potentiel de l’interférométrie de speckle pour obtenir la mesure de ces deux grandeurs. Plus généralement, nous montrons l’utilité de la mesure du champ de déplacement pour caractériser le développement de l’endommagement dans les stratifiés. Le premier chapitre décrit l’endommagement qui peut affecter les matériaux composites stratifiés. L’objectif est de mettre en évidence les points particuliers pour lesquels la mesure du champ de déplacement pourrait apporter des informations originales. Dans le deuxième chapitre, le principe de l’interférométrie de speckle est exposé. Nous avons particulièrement insisté sur les raisons qui nous on conduit à choisir cette technique pour réaliser cette étude. Dans le troisième chapitre, nous présentons une étude expérimentale du potentiel de l’interférométrie de speckle pour caractériser les différentes formes d’endommagement qui peuvent apparaître dans un stratifié verre/époxyde . Enfin, dans le dernier chapitre, nous analysons expérimentalement le développement de l’endommagement dans un stratifié carbone/époxyde / This work results from a collaboration between Pr Ayadi (Institut Polytechnique de Lorraine) and Pr Varna (Technical University of Luleå). Since 2005, Pr Varna has developed an original method that allows for the determination of all the thermoelastic constants of a damaged laminate. The stiffness reduction is governed by two parameters: the average value of the opening and the average value of the sliding of the crack surfaces. These values are normalized with respect to the applied loading. In this work, the potential of speckle interferometry is analysed to obtain these two parameters. More generally, we show the usefulness of displacement field measurements to characterize damage development in laminates. The first chapter is dedicated to the damage that occurs in laminates. The main objective is to highlight the points for which displacement field measurements could bring interesting information. In the second chapter, the principle of speckle interferometry is described. The choice of this technique for the considered application is discussed and justified. In the third chapter, an experimental study of the potential of speckle interferometry is proposed to characterize the damage forms that occur in a glass/epoxy laminate. In the last chapter, the development of damage is experimentally analysed in a carbon/epoxy laminate

Neste trabalho serão apresentados novos métodos baseados na geração e controle de comprimento de onda em lasers aleatórios e lasers de diodo. Na primeira parte do trabalho será demonstrado um laser aleatório com realimentação localizada em filmes em biopolímeros dopado com corante. O filme é constituído por um ácido desoxirribonucleico e cloreto de cetiltrimetilamônio (DNA-CTMA) dopado com DCM. No dispositivo proposto, a realimentação óptica para o laser aleatório é dada por centros de dispersão posicionados aleatoriamente ao longo das bordas da área ativa. Os elementos de dispersão são nanopartículas de dióxido de titânio (TiO2) ou defeitos aleatórios na interface entre o polímero ativo e ar. Diferentes espectros de emissão são observados, dependendo da geometria da área excitada. Um único ressonador aleatório com dimensões de 2.6 x 0.65 mm2 foi fabricado com emissão aleatória com realimentação obtida pela excitação do dispositivo por completo. A segunda parte deste trabalho apresenta um novo método para a geração e manipulação de franjas de contorno por meio de interferometria speckle com comprimento de onda sintética, usando um único laser de diodo com cavidade externa. A cavidade externa permite sintonizar duas emissões simultaneamente, o que por sua vez muda o intervalo entre as franjas de contorno do interferômetro, além de aumentar a estabilidade do laser. Uma análise de Fourier é proposta como alternativa para medir o comprimento de onda sintético resultante das duas emissões do laser. / In this work, a new method is presented based on generating and controlling the wavelengths emitted by diode lasers and random lasers. In the first part of this work, resonant feedback random lasing from dye-doped biopolymer films is reported, consisting of a deoxyribonucleic acid and cetyltrimethylammonium (DNA-CTMA) complex doped with DCM dye. In the device, the optical feedback for random lasing is given by scattering centers randomly positioned along the edges of the active area. Scattering elements are either titanium dioxide nanoparticles or random defects at the interface between active polymer and air. Different emission spectra are observed, depending on the geometry of the excited area. A single random resonator with dimensions of 2.6 mm x 0.65 mm is fabricated and random emission with resonant feedback is obtained by uniformly pumping the full device. The second part of this work presents a new method for generating and manipulating contour fringes produced with a single external cavity diode laser in a multi-wavelength speckle interferometer. The external cavity allows tuning two simultaneous emissions, which in turn changes the contour interval of interference fringes and also improves laser stability. A Fourier analysis is applied as an alternative method for acquiring the resulting synthetic wavelength from both emissions.

A novel delamination identification technique based on a low-population genetic algorithm for the quantitative characterisation of a single delamination in composite laminated panels is developed, and validated experimentally The damage identification method is formulated as an inverse problem through which system parameters are identified. The input of the inverse problem, the central geometric moments (CGM), is calculated from the surface out-of-plane displacements measurements of a delaminated panel obtained from Digital Speckle Pattern Interferometry (DSPI). The output parameters, the planar location, size and depth of the flaw, are the solution to the inverse problem to characterise an idealised elliptical flaw. The inverse problem is then reduced to an optimisation problem where the objective function is defined as the L2 norm of the difference between the CGM obtained from a finite element (FE) model with a trial delamination and the moments computed from the DSPI measurements. The optimum crack parameters are found by minimising the objective function through the use of a low-population real-coded genetic algorithm (LARGA). DSPI measurements of ten delaminated T700/LTM-45EL carbon/epoxy laminate panels with embedded delaminations are used to validate the methodology presented in this thesis.

Neste trabalho serão apresentados novos métodos baseados na geração e controle de comprimento de onda em lasers aleatórios e lasers de diodo. Na primeira parte do trabalho será demonstrado um laser aleatório com realimentação localizada em filmes em biopolímeros dopado com corante. O filme é constituído por um ácido desoxirribonucleico e cloreto de cetiltrimetilamônio (DNA-CTMA) dopado com DCM. No dispositivo proposto, a realimentação óptica para o laser aleatório é dada por centros de dispersão posicionados aleatoriamente ao longo das bordas da área ativa. Os elementos de dispersão são nanopartículas de dióxido de titânio (TiO2) ou defeitos aleatórios na interface entre o polímero ativo e ar. Diferentes espectros de emissão são observados, dependendo da geometria da área excitada. Um único ressonador aleatório com dimensões de 2.6 x 0.65 mm2 foi fabricado com emissão aleatória com realimentação obtida pela excitação do dispositivo por completo. A segunda parte deste trabalho apresenta um novo método para a geração e manipulação de franjas de contorno por meio de interferometria speckle com comprimento de onda sintética, usando um único laser de diodo com cavidade externa. A cavidade externa permite sintonizar duas emissões simultaneamente, o que por sua vez muda o intervalo entre as franjas de contorno do interferômetro, além de aumentar a estabilidade do laser. Uma análise de Fourier é proposta como alternativa para medir o comprimento de onda sintético resultante das duas emissões do laser. / In this work, a new method is presented based on generating and controlling the wavelengths emitted by diode lasers and random lasers. In the first part of this work, resonant feedback random lasing from dye-doped biopolymer films is reported, consisting of a deoxyribonucleic acid and cetyltrimethylammonium (DNA-CTMA) complex doped with DCM dye. In the device, the optical feedback for random lasing is given by scattering centers randomly positioned along the edges of the active area. Scattering elements are either titanium dioxide nanoparticles or random defects at the interface between active polymer and air. Different emission spectra are observed, depending on the geometry of the excited area. A single random resonator with dimensions of 2.6 mm x 0.65 mm is fabricated and random emission with resonant feedback is obtained by uniformly pumping the full device. The second part of this work presents a new method for generating and manipulating contour fringes produced with a single external cavity diode laser in a multi-wavelength speckle interferometer. The external cavity allows tuning two simultaneous emissions, which in turn changes the contour interval of interference fringes and also improves laser stability. A Fourier analysis is applied as an alternative method for acquiring the resulting synthetic wavelength from both emissions.

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L'utilisation des techniques de mesure optiques impose un choix, souvent difficile, entre la résolution temporelle et la résolution spatiale. L'interferométrie Speckle (IS) fournit des mesures des champs d'amplitudes de vibration de grande résolution spatiale, mais la résolution temporelle des mesures est réduite par les cadences d'acquisition des détecteurs. La thèse est dédiée au développement d'un système interférométrique adapté à la mesure des vibrations et des phénomènes dynamiques des structures, basé sur les principes de l'IS, mais ayant une résolution temporelle accrue. Le système a été testé à des cadences de plus de 26000 images/s pour les cas suivants : sollicitation harmonique mono-fréquence ou par une forme d'onde arbitraire ; sollicitation dynamique par une séquence d'échelons de force ; choc mécanique. Les essais ont démontré que le système est capable de dépasser les systèmes classiques d'IS à laser continu en ce qui concerne la mesure des phénomènes dynamiques. / The use of optical measurement techniques requires a choice, often difficult, between temporal resolution and spatial resolution. Speckle interferometry (IS) provides high spatial resolution maps of vibration amplitudes, but the temporal resolution of measurements is reduced, due to the low acquisition rates of detectors. The thesis is dedicated to the development of an interferometric system that is able to measure dynamic phenomena with superior temporal resolution. The system was tested at acquisition rates exceeding 26,000 frames/s, for the following cases: harmonic excitation; arbitrary excitation; dynamic loading by a staircase signal and mechanical shock. The tests showed that the system is able to overcome conventional systems of continuous wave SI with respect to the measurement of dynamic phenomena.

There has been widespread interest in corneal biomechanics over recent years, driven largely by the advancements in, and the popularity of refractive surgery techniques and subsequent concerns over their safety. Lately there has been interest into whether crosslinking, which is currently used for the treatment of keratoconus, could be developed as a minimally invasive technique to change the refractive power of the cornea by selectively changing the corneal biomechanics in specific regions to induce a shape change. Successful application of this technique requires a detailed understanding of corneal biomechanics and so far, little is known about the biomechanics of this complex tissue. The current lack of understanding can be mostly attributed to the absence of a suitable measurement technique capable of examining the dynamic behaviour of the cornea under physiological loading conditions. This thesis describes the development of a novel full-field, ex vivo, measurement method incorporating speckle interferometric techniques, to examine the biomechanics of the cornea before and after crosslinking in response to hydrostatic pressure fluctuations representative of those that occur in vivo during the cardiac cycle. The eventual measurement system used for the experiments detailed in this thesis incorporated; an Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometer (ESPI), a Lateral Shearing Interferometer (LSI) and a fringe projection shape measurement system. The combination of these systems enabled the 3-dimensional components of surface displacement and the 1st derivative of surface displacement to be determined in response to small pressure fluctuations up to 1 mmHg in magnitude. The use of both ESPI and LSI together also enabled the applicability of LSI for measurement of non-flat surfaces to be assessed, and limitations and error sources to be identified throughout this work. To enable the measurement of corneal biomechanics, part of this thesis was concerned with the design of a bespoke loading rig. A chamber was designed that could accommodate tissue of both porcine and human origin. This chamber was linked to a hydraulic loading rig, whereby the cornea could be held at a baseline pressure representative of normal intraocular pressure and small pressure variations could be introduced by the automated vertical movement of the reservoir supplying the chamber. Experiments were conducted on a range of non-biological samples with both flat and curved surface topography, and both uniform and non-uniform mechanical properties, to determine if the measurement configuration was giving the expected measurement data and the loading rig was stable and repeatable. Following experiments on non-biological samples, a range of experiments were conducted on porcine corneas to develop a suitable testing methodology and address some of the challenges associated with corneal measurement, including transparency and hydration instability. During these investigations, a suitable surface coating was identified to generate an adequate return signal from the corneal surface, while not interfering with the response. Alongside this, the natural variation in the response of the cornea was investigated over the total experimental time, and a range of data was presented on corneas before and after crosslinking, which confirmed the suitability of the measurement methods for the assessment of crosslinking. Ultimately, a small sample size of six human corneas were investigated before and after crosslinking in specific topographic locations. From the experiments on human and porcine corneas, full-field maps of surface deformation have been presented, and a compliant region incorporating the peripheral and limbal areas has been identified as being fundamental to the response of the cornea to small pressure fluctuations. In addition to this, the regional effects of crosslinking in four different topographic locations on corneal biomechanics have been evaluated. From this, it has been demonstrated that crosslinking in specific regions in isolation can influence the way the cornea deforms to physiological-scale fluctuations in hydrostatic pressure and this could have implications for refractive correction.