Determination of thermoelastic material properties by differential heterodyne detection of impulsive stimulated thermal scattering

Autor: B. Verstraeten, J. Sermeus, R. Salenbien, J. Fivez, G. Shkerdin, C. Glorieux
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Photoacoustics, Vol 3, Iss 2, Pp 64-77 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2213-5979
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacs.2015.05.001
Popis: The underlying working principle of detecting impulsive stimulated scattering signals in a differential configuration of heterodyne diffraction detection is unraveled by involving optical scattering theory. The feasibility of the method for the thermoelastic characterization of coating-substrate systems is demonstrated on the basis of simulated data containing typical levels of noise. Besides the classical analysis of the photoacoustic part of the signals, which involves fitting surface acoustic wave dispersion curves, the photothermal part of the signals is analyzed by introducing thermal wave dispersion curves to represent and interpret their grating wavelength dependence. The intrinsic possibilities and limitations of both inverse problems are quantified by making use of least and most squares analysis.
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