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Publications

SPIE. Photonics West 01/2024

Towards process control by detecting acoustic emissions during ultrashort pulsed laser ablation of multilayer materials

Authors:

C. Lutz, R. Sommerhuber, M. Kettner, C. Esen, R. Hellmann

Contents:
  • Ultra-short-pulsed laser ablation of thin multilayer materials can be monitored using XARION’s Eta450 Ultra optical microphone
  • It is possible to monitor the material transition between polymer and copper during laser ablation by observing a broad acoustic frequency spectrum between 100 kHz and 2 MHz in air, and by detecting a sudden change in acoustic energy
  • A direct correlation was found between increased detected acoustic energy and higher ablation rate
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Nature Communications 11/2023

Ultrasonic barrier-through imaging by Fabry-Perot resonance-tailoring panel

Authors:

Chung Il Park, Seungah Choe, et al.

Contents:
  • Ultrasonic imaging through nearly impenetrable metal barriers or the human skull remains an unresolved challenge
  • Applying a Fabry-Perot resonance approach and resonance tailoring panels the authors show that ultrasonic transmission through otherwise impenetrable barriers can be achieved
  • XARION's optical hydrophone (Eta100L Ultra) was employed to capture ultrasonic signals in the experiments
  • The newly developed method enables almost equivalent image quality as without barriers and has the potential to improve ultrasonic imaging
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Nature Communications 12/2023

Harmonizing sound and light: X-ray imaging unveils acoustic signatures of stochastic inter-regime instabilities during laser melting

Authors:

Milad Hamidi Nasab, Giulio Masinelli, et al.

Contents:
  • Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing (LPBF AM) is a metal additive manufacturing process capable of directly producing intricate three-dimensional metallic components from CAD models
  • The present work deploys high-speed synchrotron X-ray imaging to scrutinize keyhole melting instabilities in LPBF and correlates these with the process’ acoustic emission (AE)
  • XARION’s optical microphone was used to measure airborne AE from the interaction zone between laser and material
  • The transition between conduction, stable keyhole, and unstable keyhole regimes, which leads to porosity formation and other instabilities, can successfully be discerned using the AE data
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Additive Manufacturing 01/2024

Healing of keyhole porosity by means of defocused laser beam remelting: Operando observation by X-ray imaging and acoustic emission-based detection

Authors:

Charlotte de Formanoir, Milad Hamidi Nasab, et al.

Contents:
  • In Laser Powder-Bed Fusion (LPBF) the unpredictable formation of defects such as pores can lead to compromised mechanical properties
  • Using XARION’s optical microphone a strategy for monitoring in-situ healing of pores through laser remelting was implemented
  • Acoustic signals acquired during laser remelting are temporally synchronized and analyzed with X-ray images to identify acoustic signatures of the pore healing event
  • The approach presented in this paper enables precise monitoring of defect healing during the LPBF process without the use of elaborate machine learning algorithms
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Nature Photonics 10/2023

Acousto-optic modulation of gigawatt-scale laser pulses in ambient air

Authors:

Yannick Schrödel, Claas Hartmann, et al.

Contents:
  • XARION's optical microphone has been used to measure high-intensity ultrasonic fields
  • Schrödel et al. from DESY Hamburg showed deflection of gigawatt-scale laser pulses in air
  • Controlling coherent light is crucial in many fields, but modern photonics faces limitations from factors like wavelength and high optical powers
  • Using ultrasound-tailored gaseous media to efficiently deflect laser pulses offers new possibilities for resilient optical elements
  • To measure and characterize the ultrasound fields used for deflection, XARION’s Optical Microphone was used
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Composite Structures 10/23

Low-velocity impact behaviour of biocomposite laminates reinforced by flax, basalt and hybrid fibres at various temperatures: Analytical, numerical and experimental results

Authors:

Valentina Giammaria, Simonetta Boria, Josef Pörnbacher, et.al.

Contents:
  • The impact behavior of bio-composites reinforced with flax, basalt and hybrid fibers was investigated
  • XARION’s LEA method was used to assess the internal damage of the composites after impact
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Wood Material Science & Engineering 05/2023

Supervised classification of wood species during milling based on extracted cut events from ultrasonic air-borne acoustic signals

Authors:

Mehieddine Derbas, Stephan Frömel-Frybort, Christian Laaber, Hans-Christian Möhring, Martin Riegler

Contents:
  • Monitoring during wood processing is gaining momentum in order to increase efficiency and enable adaptive manufacturing
  • Acoustic monitoring is particularly suited for the cutting/milling process
  • Derbas et al. developed a Machine Learning model to distinguish between wood species with up to 93% accuracy using single-cut events
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Optics and Laser Technology 04/2023

A comprehensive study on water jet guided laser micro hole drilling of an aerospace alloy

Authors:

Levent Subasi, Mustafa I. Gokler, Ulas Yaman

Contents:
  • Water-Jet Guided Laser Drilling is a process particularly suited for manufacturing of thin and long holes in metals
  • In this study, the Optical Microphone has proven to be a suitable sensor for monitoring the hole depth and the moment of hole breakthrough in real-time
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12th International Electric Drives Production Conference (EDPC) 01/23

Inline Process Monitoring of Hairpin Welding Using Optical and Acoustic Quality Metrics

Authors:

Markus Omlor, Johannes Reith, et.al.

Contents:
  • XARION´s Optical Microphone was used to capture airborne ultrasound generated during the hairpin welding process
  • A multitude of welds were performed under varying quality-affecting parameter conditions, such as positioning misalignments or focal height and laser power deviations
  • It was found that the real-time ultrasound emission could be utilized as an early indicator for predicting the important quality criterium of final cross-sectional area of connection
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Proceedings of LANE 2022 Erlangen 09/2022

Monitoring of remote laser processes using air-coupled ultrasound

Authors:

R. Sommerhuber, M. Kettner

Contents:
  • XARION’s optical microphone was used for contact-free monitoring of laser processes by comparing the acoustic emissions of the process to known reference signals
  • In this paper, this monitoring method was shown to be able to detect defects and irregularities in the welding of metal sheets and of direct copper bonded substrates
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