Investigation of optical fibers for coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) spectroscopy in reacting flows

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 969-984

  Hsu, Paul S ^a   Patnaik, Anil K ^b   Gord, James R ^b   Meyer, Terrence R ^c   Kulatilaka, Waruna D ^a   Roy, Sukesh ^a  

^a Spectral Energies LLC   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM PROPAGATION; COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING SPECTROSCOPIES; DAMAGE THRESHOLD; FIBER-COUPLED; FLUENCES; GASPHASE; INTENSE LASER; LASER IRRADIANCE; MULTIMODES; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL; NONLINEAR EFFECT; NONRESONANT; PICOSECONDS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; REACTING FLOWS; SPECIES CONCENTRATION; STEP-INDEX FIBERS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMBUSTION; HYDROCARBONS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER BEAMS; LASER DIAGNOSTICS; MULTIMODE FIBERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEXTILE FIBERS;

COHERENT SCATTERING;

EID: 78149466324     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-010-0961-6     Document Type: Article

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