Optical Methods Division

The Optical Methods Division (OMD) exists “to advance optical technology by providing a forum for the timely exchange of information” and “to promote the development of new applications of Optical Methods in mechanics by organizing symposia-type technical sessions”. Its international membership comes from universities, industries and government laboratories. The OMD promotes short courses during the Annual SEM Conference in topics such as Fiber Optics, Moiré Interferometry, Image Analysis and Applied Optics. It also sponsors technical sessions on topics relevant to the application of mature optical techniques, and on state-of-the-art and developing optical technologies of interest to the experimental mechanics community. Additionally, it attempts to identify future research directions and applications of optical methods and techniques relevant to experimental mechanics.

Moiré grating" modulation at the atomic scale for the analysis
of stress field in a Si-C cristal with dislocations.
Image courtesy of Prof. Cesar Sciammarella

Officers
*Chair*	Arkady Voloshin Lehigh University av01@lehigh.edu
*Co-Chair*	Katia Genovese Università degli Studi della Basilicata genovese@unibas.it
*Secretary*	Helena Jin Sandia National Laboratory hjin@sandia.gov

History and Purpose
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Links to Relevant Standards for Optical Methods

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Optical Methods-Back to Basics
This current series provides a platform to convey an educationally focused coupling of textual learning with visual/illustrative learning of innovative optical measurement methods that range from the nature and description of light to phase shifting interferometries. The optical methods described within this series, in many cases, occur in nature but through creative adaptation they can be applied to offer physical solutions to the measurement of stress and strain in various materials and systems. The author of Optical Methods is Professor Gary Cloud of Michigan State University.

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Optical Methods Division – Summary of report of Division Activities June 2007-2008

The Optical Methods Division has been active in the organization of symposium on Optical Metrology 2008 - International Symposium on Optical Metrology in Industrial, Medical, and Daily Life Applications. It is sponsored by Optical Methods Technical Division in SEM, and organized by Cosme Furlong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA); Yu-Lung Lo, National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan ROC); and Ramon Rodriguez-Vera, Centro de Investigaciones en Optica (Mexico). This symposium is to provide a forum to discuss recent advances in optical metrology as it relates to industrial, medical, and daily life applications.

The following TD sessions for the 2009 Annual Meeting were proposed and the following individuals volunteered to lead this activity:
- C. Sciammarella: Methodologies for nano-scale measurements (2 sessions)
- A. Voloshin and K. Genovese: Application of optical methods for deformation analysis of cell and tissue (2 sessions, co-sponsor with Biological systems and materials TD)
- H. Jin: Application of the Digital Image Correlation to micro and nano scale
- Y.L. Lo : Fiber Optic Sensors (1 session)
- F. Pierron: High-speed image acquisition and analysis (co-sponsor with Inverse problems methodology TD)
- R. Rodriguez: Speckle and digital holography.

The Paper Review Committee for 2009 was selected:

Chair: C.A. Sciammarella
Members: Ming-Tzer Lin and Don Matthys