Extending temporal coherence in speckle interferometry

Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometry (ESPI) and Shearography (ESPSI) techniques have been used in the field of non-destructive testing for a long time, providing accuracy, and allowing whole field analysis of pure deformation (ESPI) or the gradient of deformation (ESPSI). One of the major weaknesses of this two techniques is linked to speckle de-correlation. When the deformation process produces a displacement greater than a certain proportion of the speckle size, there is a severe loss of coherence which limits the application of these techniques to processes with strong or fast deformations. In order to avoid this limitation, the use of a dynamically updated reference frame is tested in this work. First, in ESPI and ESPSI setups, a metacrylathe bar is used as specimen for testing procedures, and finally a human jaw bone will be used in an ESPSI setup. One basic and regular-shaped object, the bar, and a structurally 3D complex structure, the human jaw bone, with complex elastic properties are the samples to test.