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光纤已被澳大利亚Monash大学机械工程师们用作光传输媒介,来测量巨大断裂波浪的速度。在设计必须承受大波涛产生的力的装置中,重要的是必须知道波的垂直速度和水平速度。由于测量波浪内水粒子的速度十分困难,故人们对大波浪的物理特性还知之甚少。由 Thang Nguyen教授领导的 Monash小组,用光纤把氩-铁激光器的三束光传导到断裂波某一点的方法解决了测量问题。他们在机械工程部的水槽中人为地形成了这种断裂波,并“使之攀登一个斜坡”。在某一点,该波变得不稳定并随之断裂,好象在海滩上发生断裂一样。
Optical fiber has been used as a light transmission medium by mechanical engineers at Monash University in Australia to measure the speed of large, fractured waves. In designing devices that must withstand the forces created by large waves, it is important to know the vertical and horizontal velocities of the waves. Because of the difficulty of measuring the velocity of water particles in waves, little is known about the physical characteristics of large waves. The Monash team, led by Professor Thang Nguyen, solved the measurement problem by using fiber optics to transmit the three beams of an argon-iron laser to a point in the break. They artificially created this wave of waves in the sink of the mechanical engineering department and “made it to climb a slope.” At some point, the wave becomes unstable and breaks with it, as if a break occurred on the beach.