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Computational–Experimental Design Framework for Laser Path Length Controller
The application areas of piezoelectric materials are expanding rapidly in the form of piezo harvesters, sensors and actuators. A path length controller is a high-precision piezoelectric actuator used in laser oscillators, especially in ring laser gyroscopes. A path length controller alters the posit...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8348480/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34372443 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21155209 |
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author | Fenercioğlu, Tevfik Ozan Yalçinkaya, Tuncay |
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description | The application areas of piezoelectric materials are expanding rapidly in the form of piezo harvesters, sensors and actuators. A path length controller is a high-precision piezoelectric actuator used in laser oscillators, especially in ring laser gyroscopes. A path length controller alters the position of a mirror nanometrically by means of a control voltage to stabilize the route that a laser beam travels in an integral multiple of laser wavelength. The design and verification of a path length controller performance requires long (up to 3 months), expensive and precise production steps to be successfully terminated. In this study, a combined computational–experimental design framework was developed to control, optimize and verify the performance of the path length controller, without the need for ring laser gyroscope assembly. A novel framework was structured such that the piezoelectric performance characteristics were calculated using finite element analysis. Then, a stand-alone measurement system was developed to verify the finite element analysis results before system integration. The final performance of the novel framework was verified by a direct measurement method called mode-scanning, which is founded on laser interferometry. The study is concluded with the explanation of measurement errors and finite element correlations. |
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spelling | pubmed-83484802021-08-08 Computational–Experimental Design Framework for Laser Path Length Controller Fenercioğlu, Tevfik Ozan Yalçinkaya, Tuncay Sensors (Basel) Article The application areas of piezoelectric materials are expanding rapidly in the form of piezo harvesters, sensors and actuators. A path length controller is a high-precision piezoelectric actuator used in laser oscillators, especially in ring laser gyroscopes. A path length controller alters the position of a mirror nanometrically by means of a control voltage to stabilize the route that a laser beam travels in an integral multiple of laser wavelength. The design and verification of a path length controller performance requires long (up to 3 months), expensive and precise production steps to be successfully terminated. In this study, a combined computational–experimental design framework was developed to control, optimize and verify the performance of the path length controller, without the need for ring laser gyroscope assembly. A novel framework was structured such that the piezoelectric performance characteristics were calculated using finite element analysis. Then, a stand-alone measurement system was developed to verify the finite element analysis results before system integration. The final performance of the novel framework was verified by a direct measurement method called mode-scanning, which is founded on laser interferometry. The study is concluded with the explanation of measurement errors and finite element correlations. MDPI 2021-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8348480/ /pubmed/34372443 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21155209 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Fenercioğlu, Tevfik Ozan Yalçinkaya, Tuncay Computational–Experimental Design Framework for Laser Path Length Controller |
title | Computational–Experimental Design Framework for Laser Path Length Controller |
title_full | Computational–Experimental Design Framework for Laser Path Length Controller |
title_fullStr | Computational–Experimental Design Framework for Laser Path Length Controller |
title_full_unstemmed | Computational–Experimental Design Framework for Laser Path Length Controller |
title_short | Computational–Experimental Design Framework for Laser Path Length Controller |
title_sort | computational–experimental design framework for laser path length controller |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8348480/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34372443 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21155209 |
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