POLARISATION SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY FOR MATERIAL ANALYSIS AND DIAGNOSTICS

• Abstract:

  We apply optical coherence tomography (OCT) and a modification thereof, namely polarisationsensitive OCT (PS-OCT), to a variety of problems posed in metrology for material analysis and diagnostics. Among these are imaging of glass-fibre enforced epoxy resin compounds and the detection of dry spots. Furthermore, PS-OCT measurements have been used to measure the birefringence and the orientation of the fast optical axis within test structures: mapping of strain fields of samples under uni-axial and non-uniform external stress and the detection of flow patterns in injection-moulded plastic parts could be successfully demonstrated.
• Keywords:

  polarisation-sensitive optical coherence tomography, material analysis and diagnostics
• Download:

  PWC-2003-TC2-012.pdf
• DOI:

  _unreg_wc-2003.TC2-012

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