Table of contents
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1. Introduction ............................................................................................................... 1
1.1 Introduction to Surface Acoustic Waves......................................................... 1
1.2 Excitation and detection of SAWs .................................................................. 3
1.3 Optical detection ............................................................................................. 4
1.4 My thesis......................................................................................................... 5
2. Optical interferometer................................................................................................ 7
2.1 Interference phenomenon................................................................................ 7
2.2 Interferometry technology............................................................................... 8
2.3 Interferometers................................................................................................ 9
2.3.1 Michelson interferometer ..................................................................... 9
2.3.2 Laser Doppler Vibrometer.................................................................. 13
2.3.3 Fabry Perot Interferometer ................................................................. 15
2.3.4 Other interferometers.......................................................................... 16
3. Interferometer system setup for the experiments .................................................... 17
3.1 SP-S 120/500 Laserinterferometric Vibrometer............................................ 17
3.1.1 The sensor head.................................................................................. 18
3.1.2 The Power-Supply/Signal-Analyzer Unit........................................... 19
3.1.3 Object requirement and environmental influence .............................. 22
3.2 M-511. HD Nano-Precision Heavy-Duty Stage............................................ 23
3.3 Excitation of SAWs....................................................................................... 25
3.4 Software ........................................................................................................ 26
3.5 Measurement process with the interferometer system and data analysis. 26
3.5.1 Building of the IDT construction........................................................ 27
3.5.2 Setting the measurement point ........................................................... 28
3.5.3 Exciting the SAW............................................................................... 28
3.5.4 Preparation before the aligning of the SP-S 120/500
Laserinterferometric Vibrometer ...................................................................... 28
3.5.5 Aligning the SP-S 120/500 Laserinterferometric Vibrometer............ 29
3.5.6 Acquisition of the measurement data ................................................. 36
3.5.7 Data analysis in Matlab ...................................................................... 39
4. Experiment results and discussion........................................................................... 45