TY - CONF A1 - Ahmadi, Samim A1 - Thiel, Erik A1 - Ziegler, Mathias T1 - Thermal wave field engineering using structured 1D laser illumination N2 - Thermal waves are solutions of the heat diffusion equation for periodic boundary conditions and can be seen analogously to strongly damped waves. Although the underlying differential equation differs from the wave equation, the essential property for analogy between both equations is linearity such that superposition applies. This linearity is maintained even after a linear transformation, such as the Fourier transform from time to frequency domain. It follows that the temporal superposition principle is already used in active thermography, e.g. in pulsed thermography, as a superposition of many individual frequencies. However, the systematic spatial superposition has not yet been fully exploited, mainly due to a lack of suitable energy sources. As a first step, we are investigating how thermal wave fields of arbitrary space-time structures can be engineered using structured laser illumination. The proof of principle was shown using a laser coupled projector. Unfortunately, the available optical output power was limited due to the thermal stress limit of the device. That is why we are working towards a more sophisticated moving 1D array of high-power diode lasers. We characterized the novel light source and believe that apart from the benefit of spatial and temporal illumination it can combine the temporal regimes of impulse and lock-in thermography. In a second step, we investigate moving and oscillating line sources with different line shapes. We use a Green’s Function ansatz to analytically model the thermal wave propagation of structured 1D laser illumination in isotropic materials. Furthermore, we show some methods how they can be implemented. With this technique, we were able to accelerate our detection method firstly presented in for vertical narrow defects by factor three. Generally, we believe that this technique opens up similar opportunities than in other NDE methods. High-resolution ultrasound, for example, is also based on the superposition of single emitters and a recent concept suggests an option to deal with the diffusion wave character of the thermal waves. T2 - 62. International School of Quantum Electronics die Tagung “Progress in Photoacoustic & Photothermal Phenomena” CY - Erice, Italy DA - 06.09.2018 KW - Thermal wave KW - Thermal wave field KW - Thermal engineering KW - Structured laser illumination KW - 1d laser KW - Laser array KW - Laser thermography PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-46193 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -