Advances in Single-Laser-Shot Femtosecond Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Concentration and Temperature Measurements Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • Single-laser-shot femtosecond (fs) coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) temperature measurements are performed at 5 kHz while suppressing the nonresonant background by polarization techniques. A chirped probe pulse is used to map the temporal dependence of the Raman coherence into the CARS signal frequency allowing for single-laser-shot measurements. A theoretical model and fitting code are presented, and good agreement is seen between the theory and experiment. By eliminating the nonresonant background, the diagnostic technique may be less sensitive to laser fluctuations as well as changes in nonresonant background levels due to changes in gas phase composition. Temperature measurements are reported for a steady near-adiabatic flame and for an unsteady hydrogen-air jet diffusion flame with nonresonant background suppression. In the jet diffusion flame, the measured temperature varied continuously from 500 to 1800 K, and sufficient signal levels are maintained to fit single-laser-shot spectra up to 1800 K. Copyright 2012 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc.

name of conference

  • 50th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

published proceedings

  • 50th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

author list (cited authors)

  • Lucht, R., Richardson, D., Kulatilaka, W., Roy, S., & Gord, J.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • Lucht, Robert||Richardson, Daniel||Kulatilaka, Waruna||Roy, Sukesh||Gord, James

publication date

  • January 2012