Optical Probes --; Potential and Applicability --; 1 Introduction --; 2 Applications and Potential --; 3 Introduction to the Schlieren and Shadowgraph Method --; Holography and Holographic Interferometry --; 4 Fundamentals of Holography and Interferometry --; 5 Holographic Interferometry --; 6 Differential Interferometry --; 7 Pulsed Laser Holography --; 8 Evaluation of holograms by digital image processing --; Techniques Based on Light Scattering --; 9 Light Scattering --; 10 Laser-Doppler Velocimetry (LDV) --; 11 Dynamic Light Scattering --; 12 Raman Scattering --; 13 Laser induced Fluorescence --; 14 Absorption --; Light Emmission Techniques --; 15 Pyrometry and Thermography --; 16 Self Fluorescence --; Tomography --; 17 Tomographic Measurement and Reconstruction Techniques --; Nomenclatur --; References.
This book provides an introduction to the most important optical techniques applied to engineering problems as well as a guideline to select and apply an appropriate technique for a particular problem. After a brief survey of the techniques presented in the book, including a discussion of their possibilities and limits and a classification with regard to the effort and cost, each technique is described in detail in a separate section. In addition, a general overview is given for each group of techniques. All chapters start with a discussion of the theoretical background followed by a detailed description of an experimental setup typical for a given technique and illustrated by some examples of application. A final chapter is devoted to tomography, a powerful evalution technique which can be applied to several of the previously discussed techniques.