Laser ultrasonics techniques and applications

Content: Cover
 Half Title
 Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Table of Contents
 Preface
 Acknowledgments
 Glossary of Symbols
 1: Introduction
 1.1 Ultrasonics
 1.2 Lasers
 1.3 Main characteristics of laser light
 1.4 Lasers for ultrasonics
 Bibliography
 2: Acousto-optic Interactions
 2.1 The acousto-optic effect
 2.2 The measurement of ultrasonic fields
 2.3 Bragg diffraction
 2.4 Acousto-optic devices
 2.5 Applications of acousto-optic devices
 2.6 The interaction of light with surface waves
 References
 3: Laser Interferometry
 3.1 Principles of laser interferometry 3.2 Theory of interference between light beams3.3 Reference-beam interferometry with rough surfaces
 3.4 Light detection and signal amplification
 3.5 Effects of laser mode structure
 3.6 Signal processing
 3.7 Stabilized interferometers
 3.8 Optical frequency shifting
 3.9 Quadrature interferometers
 3.10 Long-path-difference interferometry
 3.11 Fabry-Perot interferometers
 References
 4: Applications of Laser Interferometry to Ultrasonic Displacement Measurement
 4.1 The measurement of acoustic fields
 4.2 Scanned laser interferometry
 4.3 Full-field visualization of surface displacement 4.4 The measurement of surface waves4.5 Calibration of transducers
 4.6 Acoustic emission
 4.7 The measurement of transverse and vector displacement
 4.8 Sensitivity comparison with other ultrasonic detection techniques
 References
 5: Ultrasonic Generation by Laser
 5.1 Absorption of electromagnetic radiation
 5.2 Temperature distributions
 5.3 Thermoelastic stresses
 5.4 Other effects
 5.5 Constrained surfaces
 5.6 Ultrasonic wave propagation in unbounded solids
 5.7 Propagation in bounded solids
 5.8 Radiation patterns for laser ultrasonic sources
 5.9 Ultrasonic bulk waveforms in plates 5.10 Ultrasonic surface and guided waves5.11 Lasers for ultrasonic generation
 References
 6: Applications Using Laser Generation of Ultrasound
 6.1 Applications to flaw detection
 6.2 Applications to materials property measurement
 6.3 Applications to acoustic microscopy
 6.4 Calibration
 6.5 Wave propagation studies
 6.6 Medical applications
 References
 7: Conclusions and Future Prospects for Laser Techniques in Ultrasonics
 7.1 Summary and conclusions
 7.2 Future research and development
 7.3 Future prospects for applications
 References
 Index