We describe the control of a pulsed laser for measuring har- monic vibrations with double-pulsed addition electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI). The basic requirement is to synchronize the laser pulses both to a known position of the object vibration cycle (to obtain a stationary fringe pattern) and to a charge coupled device (CCD) camera (to obtain one double pulse per field.) It is shown theoretically and ex- perimentally that at low object-vibration frequencies (typically ,500 Hz) these synchronization requirements can cause instabilities in the laser output. A synchronization scheme to overcome these problems is de- scribed and experimental results presented at several low object- vibration frequencies. Addition fringe visibility is improved in real-time with an electronic filter. © 1996 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. Subject terms: double-pulsed electronic speckle pattern interferometry; addition electronic speckle pattern interferometry; vibration measurement.
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