MATERIALS TESTING FOR JOINING AND ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING APPLICATIONS 213 Laser speckle photometry – Optical sensor systems for condi- tion and process monitoring Lili Chen, Ulana Cikalova, Beatrice Bendjus, Laser speckle photometry (LSP) is an innovative, non-destruc- Andreas Gommlich, Shohag Roy Sudip, tive monitoring technique based on the detection and analy- Carolin Schott, Juliane Steingroewer, Dresden, sis of thermally or mechanically activated speckle dynamics Matthias Belting, Aachen, and in a non-stationary optical field. With the development of Stefan Kleszczynski, Duisburg, Germany speckle theories, it has been found that speckle patterns carry information about surface characteristics. Therefore, LSP offers a great potential for the characterization of mate- rial properties and monitoring of manufacturing processes. In contrast to the speckle interferometry method, LSP is very simple and robust. The sample is illuminated by only one la- ser beam to generate a speckle pattern on the surface. The Article Information signals obtained are directly recorded by a CCD or CMOS Correspondence Address Dr.-Ing. Beatrice Bendjus camera. By appropriate optical solutions for the beam path, Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic typically, resolutions of less than 10 μm are reached if larger Technologies and Systems IKTS Maria-Reiche-Str. 2 areas are illuminated. LSP is definitely a contactless, quick 01109 Dresden, Germany and quality relevant material characterization and defect de- E-mail:
[email protected] tection method, allowing process monitoring in many indus- Keywords trial fields. Examples from online biotechnological monitoring Laser speckle photometry, process-monitoring, defect-monitoring, build-up welding, additive and laser based manufacturing demonstrate further poten- manufacturing, biomass tials of the method for process monitoring and controlling.