Simultaneous high-speed measurement of temperature and lifetime-corrected OH laserinduced fluorescence in unsteady flames

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2007-08-01
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Meyer, Terrence
King, Galen
Glusenkamp, Matthew
Gord, James
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A means of performing simultaneous, high-speed measurements of temperature and OH lifetime-corrected laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) for tracking unsteady flames has been developed and demonstrated. The system uses the frequency-doubled and frequency-tripled output beams of an 80 MHz mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser to achieve ultrashort laser pulses (order 2 ps) for Rayleigh-scattering thermometry at 460 nm and lifetime-corrected OH LIF at 306.5 nm, respectively. Simultaneous, high-speed measurements of temperature and OH number density enable studies of flame chemistry, heat release, and flame extinction in unsteady, strained flames where the local fluorescence-quenching environment is unknown.

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This article is from Optics Letters 32 (2007): 2221, doi: 10.1364/OL.32.002221. Posted with permission.

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