Use of optical data processing techniques for surface roughness studies

1 January 1968

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Proceedings of the IEEE

Vol. 56 (9) , 1637-1638
https://doi.org/10.1109/proc.1968.6693

Abstract

A report is given of preliminary work on a process of studying surface roughness of materials. The technique analyzes the statistics of the Fourier components of the surface roughness and uses conventional optical data processing procedures.

Keywords

DATA PROCESSING
ROUGH SURFACES
SURFACE ROUGHNESS
OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS
CIRCUITS
OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS
INDUCTANCE MEASUREMENT
DEGRADATION
OPTICAL FILTERS
OPTICAL MATERIALS