Pattern Recognition, Classification and Simulation of Laser Beam Impact

This work deals with the problem of laser simulation. At the beginning it gives a broader overview of the project of laser simulation which is processed at the University of West Bohemia. The simulation is described in several fundamental steps to gain basic concept of the process. Several techniques of data sets obtaining, their processing and usage for the simulation and also the importance of simulation system verification is highlighted to understand the whole approach well. Several methods for automatic pulse detection are described in detail. Pulse detection is the main part of pulse extraction, which is one of the most important data processing steps. The main idea of each described method is explained and their problems and possible ways of their elimination are discussed. All methods are tested for several selected samples which were chosen because of some typical feature. As another important part of the work methods for system verification are outlined and results are discussed. At the end of the paper future plans for the project are introduced. Copyright © 2008 University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic