This method aims at locating vertical subsurface defects. Here, we couple a laser with a spatial light modulator and trigger its video input to heat a sample surface deterministically with two anti-phased modulated lines while acquiring highly resolved thermal images. The defect position is retrieved from evaluating thermal wave interference minima.
Thiel, E., Ziegler, M. Subsurface Defect Localization by Structured Heating Using Laser Projected Photothermal Thermography. J. Vis. Exp. (123), e55733, doi:10.3791/55733 (2017).