Schlamp, Stefan and Cummings, Eric B. and Sobota, Thomas H. (2000) Laser-induced thermal-acoustic velocimetry with heterodyne detection. Optics Letters, 25 (4). pp. 224-226. ISSN 0146-9592. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:SCHLol00
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Abstract
Laser-induced thermal acoustics (LITA) was used with heterodyne detection to measure simultaneously and in a single laser pulse the sound speed and flow velocity of NO2-seeded air in a low-speed wind tunnel up to Mach number M = 0.1. The uncertainties of the velocity and the sound speed measurements were ~0.2 m/s and 0.5%, respectively. Measurements were obtained through a nonlinear least-squares fit to a general, analytic closed-form solution for heterodyne-detected LITA signals from thermal gratings. Agreement between theory and experiment is exceptionally good.
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| Additional Information: | © 2000 Optical Society of America. Received September 20, 1999. This study was supported by Advanced Projects Research, Inc., and by NASA Langley Research Center under NASA contract NAS1-99016. |
| Subject Keywords: | Diffraction gratings; Temperature measurement; Vibration analysis; Nonlinear optics; Four-wave mixing |
| Issue or Number: | 4 |
| Record Number: | CaltechAUTHORS:SCHLol00 |
| Persistent URL: | https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:SCHLol00 |
| Alternative URL: | http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-25-4-224 |
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| ID Code: | 5894 |
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| Deposited By: | Lindsay Cleary |
| Deposited On: | 07 Nov 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Oct 2019 23:27 |
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