INVERSE COMPUTATION OF OPTICAL-ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT IN INHOMOGENEOUS MATERIAL WITH VARIED THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY

In this paper,for an inhomogeneous material in which the thermal conductivity varies as a function of depth,an efficient treatment is proposed to inversely calculate the depth distri- bution of optical- absorption coefficientby the surface temperature of the material.It is demon- strated that the results of inverse computation by that method are more similar to the experi- mental ones measured by some destructive method.Thus,the treatmentis more feasible to non- destructively estimate the distribution.