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The carriage has several weight plates which are attached to the center hub by a washer attached to the bottom. The device allows us to apply different tensions by changing the number of weighting plates used. The wires are tensioned individually to avoid the potential issue of tensioning them unevenly, thus changing the resonance characteristics.  Each plate weighs 5.56g, allowing us the freedom to apply up to 33g of weight to each fiber bundle.
 
The carriage has several weight plates which are attached to the center hub by a washer attached to the bottom. The device allows us to apply different tensions by changing the number of weighting plates used. The wires are tensioned individually to avoid the potential issue of tensioning them unevenly, thus changing the resonance characteristics.  Each plate weighs 5.56g, allowing us the freedom to apply up to 33g of weight to each fiber bundle.
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=== Calibration Device ===
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As mentioned before, the relationship between the movement of the reflected spot had on the flare spot had to be determined. A simple calibration device was developed to help determine this relationship.  The following is an image of the device used for the camera calibration:
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== Video Analysis == 
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IMAGE OF CALIBRATION DEVICE
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=== Calibration Set-Up ===
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This calibration device was used to determine the change in pixel location of the center of the lens flares based on angular displacement.  To do this, the camera was mounted horizontally on a 1.40m long bar.  The camera end was free to rotate about a pivot located at the opposite end of the rod, above which a mirror was mounted.  The green laser used in the Michelson was reflected off of the two mirrors and into the camera lens.  A linear micro-adjustment translation stage was placed below the camera end.  The camera position was changed by .5mm and a map of flare spot location versus camera displacement was developed.  It was thought originally that the camera lens may distort the flare spot as it moved away from the center, but it was determined that the area of interest is sufficiently linear, and so a simple equation for translation versus movement was developed. 
The following is an image of the device used for the camera calibration:
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IMAGE OF CALIBRATION DEVICE
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== Video Analysis ==  
 
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This calibration device was used to determine the change in pixel location of the center of the lens flares based on angular displacement. To do this, the camera was mounted horizontally on a 1.40m long bar.  The camera end was free to rotate about a pivot located at the opposite end of the rod, above which a mirror was mounted.  A linear micro-adjustment translation stage was placed below the camera end.
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A high-speed (1200fps)video of the movement of the flare spot was then taken and analyzed using a fitting program. of the large number of images, a batching process was developed to aid in the video analysis.  First, a built in Linux program, ffmpeg, separates the video into individual frames.  Next, a program was developed to determine the center of th flare spot for each image.  To find the location of the center of the flare, several lines of code were implemented:
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A high-speed (1200fps)video of the movement of the flare spot was then taken and analyzed using a fitting program. of the large number of images, a batching process was developed to aid in the video analysis.  First, a built in Linux program, [http://www.ffmpeg.org/ ffmpeg], separates the video into individual frames.  Next, a program was developed to determine the center of th flare spot for each image.  To find the location of the center of the flare, several lines of code were implemented:
    
[[Image:Screenshot.png|center|Matlab code used for image analysis]]
 
[[Image:Screenshot.png|center|Matlab code used for image analysis]]
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This program imports images with the name beginning with fnameref, starting with fnameref-initial.bmp .  The program then converts the image into a matrix of intensity values and separates out the green channel.  The plot for this channel is then images in flase color, with intensity ranging from low (blue) to high (red).  The bright center spot is the point-to-point image of the illuminated diamond wafer.  This spot remains fixed (the diamond is not really moving in space, simply rotating about fixed axes).  Since this bright spot is many times brighter than the flair spot we are trying to investigate, we artificially mast this location out, so that the fit does not consider those points.  
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This program imports images with the name beginning with fnameref, starting with fnameref-initial.bmp .  The program then converts the image into a matrix of intensity values and separates out the green channel.  The plot for this channel is then images in flase color, with intensity ranging from low (blue) to high (red).  The bright center spot is the point-to-point image of the illuminated diamond wafer.  This spot remains fixed (the diamond is not really moving in space, simply rotating about fixed axes).  Since this bright spot is many times brighter than the flair spot we are trying to investigate, we artificially mask this location out, so that the fit does not consider those points.  
    
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