Dynamic laser speckle imaging for velocimetry in blood flow: A numerical study

Cardiovascular diseases are one of the leading causes of death worldwide, for example by causing strokes. Timely diagnosis of such diseases is pivotal for a patient’s chance of survival. Furthermore, in the present world in which medical expenses are going through the roof, we can save greatly on costs if certain diseases are detected in an...

Distance metrology using optical frequency comb a step closer to industrial applications

Length is one of the fundamental physical quantities and its precise measurement is very important for science and technology. Laser-based distance metrology technique is a powerful tool, which is widely applied in geodetic monitoring, environmental monitoring and precision measurement engineering including in space applications. Since the...

Shining light on human breath analysis with quantum cascade laser spectroscopy

In the search for new non-invasive diagnostic methods, healthcare researchers have turned their attention to exhaled human breath. Breath consists of thousands of molecular compounds in very low concentrations, in the order of parts per million by volume (ppm_v), parts per billion by volume (ppb_v) and parts per trillion by...

Distance Measurement in Air with a Femtosecond Frequency Comb Laser

This thesis is about interferometric distance measurement using ultrashort pulses, with linear measurement techniques in a dispersive medium. Several fields of expertise are combined here: ultrashort pulse propagation in dispersive media, distance measurement interefometry and linear measurement techniques. All our measurements can be mainly...