Investigation of Displacement Limitations for Laser Speckle Photography.

Abstract

A double exposure procedure, similar to that used with holographic interferometry, is used with laser speckle photography. A photographic image made using this technique has each speckle recorded twice; once before and once after displacement of the subject. The distance between corresponding speckle pairs on the photographic plate is directly proportional to the local in-plane displacement. Data may be extracted from these specklegrams by illuminating a local area of the image with a small diameter laser beam and observing Young's fringes which modulate the resulting diffraction halo. These fringes are perpendicular to the displacement vector and have a spacing inversely proportional to the displacement magnitude.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1974
Accession Number
ADA062153

Entities

People

  • Mark R. Lenci

Organizations

  • Flight Dynamics Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Cameras
  • Displacement
  • Dynamics
  • Equations
  • Images
  • Laser Beams
  • Lasers
  • Light Sources
  • Magnification
  • Photographic Images
  • Photographic Plates
  • Photographs
  • Photography
  • Stress Analysis
  • Structural Analysis

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Astronomy/Astrophysics
  • Geodesy
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects