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Exercise 6.1.11: A laser Doppler vibrometer

About the further exercises of Section 6.1

Seventeen further exercises in the spirit of the problems, the home exercises and the worked examples, graded from easy to harder within each group. Exercises 6.1.1–6.1.4 are about uniform plane waves, , , and the triad, Exercises 6.1.5–6.1.6 about power, energy and loss, Exercises 6.1.7–6.1.10 about polarisation, Exercises 6.1.11–6.1.12 about the Doppler effect, and Exercises 6.1.13–6.1.17 mix power, exposure and polarisation. Besides the relations listed at the head of this subsection they use the lossy forms , , and (Exercise 6.1.6 only), the average energy density , Faraday's law , and the polarisation match . A field factor is .

Exercise 6.1.11

A laser Doppler vibrometer

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A helium-neon laser () is aimed along the normal of a surface that vibrates as with and . (a) Find the velocity amplitude of the surface. (b) Find the largest Doppler shift of the reflected light and the relative shift . (c) Why is the shift measured by beating the echo with a reference beam rather than by measuring the echo frequency? (d) The reference is offset by in a Bragg cell so that the sign of the velocity can be read. Up to which surface speed does this work?

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Try it yourself first.

cf. Worked example 6.1.5

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