3-D laser damage positioned by deep-learning method

3-D laser damage positioned by deep-learning method
Fig. 1. Schematic diagram of holographic focusing damage positioning. Credit: SIOM

Traditional online damage detection schemes can directly detect and characterize damage by imaging optical components. However, due to optical resolution, noise, shadows and reflections, the small-size damage points cannot be inspected accurately.

Recently, a research team from Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) proposed a three-dimensional damage localization method which was insensitive to the type of damage. This work was published in Optics Express.

Their research was based on the diffraction rings from optical damage. The axial damage position was obtained by numerically focusing the diffraction ring into the conjugate position (see Fig. 1). A neural network Diffraction-Net (see Fig. 2) was proposed to distinguish the diffraction ring from different surfaces and positions and obtain the lateral .

They found that, completely trained by simulative data, diffraction-Net could distinguish the diffraction rings with the overlap rate lager than 61%, which was the best result reported.

In the experiments, the proposed method, for the first time, achieved the damage pointing on each surface of cascade slabs using rings and the smallest inspect damage size was 8μm. The lateral positioning error was less than 38.5μm and the axial positioning error was less than 2.85mm (see Fig. 3).

It should be emphasized that the proposed method has solved the practical inspection problems in the complex optical environment with one intensity recording and thus provides a new way for online damage location in high-power laser system. It will benefit the laser damage control when combining with recycle strategy in the future.

  • 3-D laser damage positioned by deep-learning method
    Fig. 2. The schematic of Diffraction-Net. Credit: SIOM
  • 3-D laser damage positioned by deep-learning method
    Fig. 3. Cascade medium positioning result. Credit: SIOM

More information: Zhan Li et al. Three-dimensional laser damage positioning by a deep-learning method, Optics Express (2020). DOI: 10.1364/OE.387987

Journal information: Optics Express

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