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Laser speckle and its application to strength measurement and crack propagationHuntley, J. M. January 1986 (has links)
The technique of laser speckle photography has been developed with the aim of measuring the strain field around the tip of a fast crack. An image processing system to allow automatic point-by-point analysis of a speckle photograph is described. The Young's fringes diffraction pattern, produced by directing a narrow laser beam through the photograph, is digitised and processed by computer. Two algorithms have been developed based on Fourier and Walsh spectral analysis. The system can measure speckle displacements with an accuracy of better than 0.1 μm. A new technique for measuring time-varying displacement fields by multiple exposure of a single photograph is presented. Results are shown from a five-exposure speckle photograph of a cantilever deformed under quasi-static conditions. Extension of the technique to dynamic problems requires a stroboscopic laser light source; one chapter deals with the development of a Q-switched ruby laser for this purpose. Modulation of the cavity losses with a Pockels cell at up to 1 MHz results in a train of short (~50 ns) light pulses at the modulation frequency. Results are presented from the analysis of speckle photographs of cracks in polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) under quasi-static loading. Three different data analysis methods for estimating the stress intensity factor from the displacement field are proposed and evaluated. Preliminary results from dynamic crack propagation studies are described. The dynamic stress intensity factor is estimated from double exposure speckle photographs of fast cracks in PMMA, recorded with the ruby laser in double pulse mode. The application of the techniques of moire and high speed photography to the study of dynamic fracture is also discussed; results are presented from a sequence of moire photographs recorded at 5 x 10<SUP>5</SUP> frames s<SUP>-1</SUP> . Further topics covered in the dissertation include a theoretical analysis of viscoelastic losses as a function of crack velocity, and strain-to-failure measurements on plastic bonded explosives in the Brazilian test using laser speckle photography.
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Laser pulse amplification through a laser-cooled active plasmaGhneim, Said Nimr, 1953- January 1988 (has links)
Recent advances in experimental laser cooling have shown the possibility of stopping an atomic beam using the light pressure force of a counter-propagating laser wave. As an application to laser cooling, it is proposed to build a single frequency cesium laser that has a narrow linewidth. Laser cooling techniques are used to cool an atomic beam of cesium to an average velocity of 5 m/s, corresponding to a temperature of 0.2°K. Expressions of the basic forces that a laser wave exerts on atoms are derived according to a semi-classical approach. The experimental problems and methods of avoiding these problems are treated in detail. A computer Monte-Carlo simulation is used to discuss the feasibility of building the proposed laser. This simulation was done for an ensemble of 10,000 atoms of cesium, and it included the effects of the gravitational force and the related experimental variables. The possibility of building single frequency lasers that use a cooled medium of noble gases, and many other applications of laser cooling are briefly discussed at the end of this work.
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Laser assisted vascular anastomosisVance, C. A. January 1988 (has links)
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Picosecond measurements with mode-locked CW lasersMosaad, N. R. M. January 1987 (has links)
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The effect of electric fields on photodynamic activationWard, Thelma A. January 1998 (has links)
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Assessment of visual performance : comparison of normal subjects and post-refractive surgery patientsChisholm, Catharine Mary January 2003 (has links)
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An investigation of visual performance subsequent to excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy and factors influencing corneal transparencyLohmann, Chris Patrick January 1995 (has links)
No description available.
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Investigations of high-efficiency mixing and parametric amplification in nonlinear crystalsMilton, Martin John Terry January 1991 (has links)
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A study of techniques for single frequency operation of diode-pumped Nd:YAG lasersClarkson, William Andrew January 1990 (has links)
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An investigation into non-linear optical processes using high power picosecond laser pulsesPointer, D. J. January 1987 (has links)
No description available.
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