Print Email Facebook Twitter Signal processing in optical coherence tomography for aerospace material characterization Title Signal processing in optical coherence tomography for aerospace material characterization Author Liu, P. Groves, R.M. Benedictus, R. Faculty Aerospace Engineering Department Aerspace Structures and Materials Date 2013-03-04 Abstract Based on a customized time-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) system, a series of signal processing approaches have been designed and reviewed. To improve demodulation accuracy and image quality, demodulation approaches such as median filter, Hilbert transform, and envelope detector were investigated with simulated as well as experimental data. Without noise, the Hilbert transform has the best performance, but after considering the narrow-band noise in the modulated signal, the envelope detector was selected as the ideal demodulation technique. To reduce noise and enhance image contrast, digital signal processing techniques such as a bandpass filtering and two-dimensional median filtering were applied before and after the demodulation, respectively. Finally with integration of the customized OCT setup and designed signal processing algorithms, aerospace materials, such as polymer coatings and glass-fiber composites, were successfully characterized. The cross-sectional images obtained clearly show the microstructures of the materials. Subject optical coherence tomographysignal processingdemodulationmedian filteraerospace materialsmicrostructure To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0e2b720d-4182-4c25-8c70-33e3405a080b DOI https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.3.033201 Publisher SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering) ISSN 0091-3286 Source http://opticalengineering.spiedigitallibrary.org/article.aspx?articleid=1660103 Source Optical Engineering, 52(3)2013 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c)2013 The Authors and SPIE Files PDF Liu.pdf 1.45 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:0e2b720d-4182-4c25-8c70-33e3405a080b/datastream/OBJ/view