Scientific Committee Members

Abstract

Laser-ultrasonics or laser-ultrasound or laser-based ul trasound has been under study and development in many laboratories around the world for sev eral decades. From the initial generation of ultrasound with lasers in the early 60s an d the first optical detection of small ultrasonic displacement in the MHz range, the field has gone in many different research directions. Laser-ultrasonics has simultaneo usly evolved as a mature technology that is now attracting more and more inter est from industry. Several applications have already been transferred to industry an d instruments are now commercially available. Many of those were featured in the symposium, either in the technical presentations or in the exhibition.