Investigation of the early stages in laser-induced ignition by Schlieren photography and laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 4546-4557

  Lackner, M ^a   Charareh, S ^a   Winter, F ^a   Iskra, K F ^b   Rudisser D ^b   Neger, T ^b   Kopecek, H ^a   Wintner, E ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; FLUORESCENCE; IGNITION; PHOTOGRAPHY; QUENCHING; SHOCK WAVES; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; STOICHIOMETRY;

COMBUSTION DIAGNOSTICS; LASER IGNITION; LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE (LIF); LASER-INDUCED IGNITION;

LASER DAMAGE;

EID: 6344249183     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.004546     Document Type: Article

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