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Measuring vibrational motion from a moving platform using speckle field detection

Abstract

We investigate the ability of a holographic laser vibrometer to mitigate noise introduced when operating on a moving platform or when measuring a moving target. This motion introduces a fundamental limitation on the measurement sensitivity due to the time-varying speckle pattern produced as the illumination beam scans across the target surface. In addition, since existing systems record the phase of only a single speckle grain, speckle fading imposes a limit on the coherent processing interval and thus the frequency resolution of these measurements. In this work, we show that by measuring N speckle grains in parallel using holographic detection, we are able to provide a N1/2 improvement in the system sensitivity while simultaneously overcoming the limitations on the coherent processing interval imposed by speckle fading. The ability to perform sensitive vibrational measurements of a moving target or from a moving platform could dramatically increase the applications available to laser vibrometry.

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Visualization 1: AVI (60091 KB)      Simulated speckle field evolution
Visualization 2: AVI (52462 KB)      Experimentally measured speckle field evolution

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