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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 27, Issue 10, Pages 14184-14198Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.27.014184
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- Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-18-1-0210]
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This manuscript presents the design and initial application of a mid-infrared laser absorption-imaging (LAI) technique for two-dimensional (2D) measurements and tomographic reconstruction of gas temperature and CO in laminar flames. In this technique, the output beam from a quantum-cascade laser (QCL) is expanded, passed through the test gas, and imaged in 2D using a high-speed mid-infrared camera. The wavelength of the QCL is scanned across the P(0,20) and P(1,14) transitions of CO near 4.8 mu m at 50 Hz to provide 2D measurements of path-integrated gas temperature and CO column density across over 3,300 lines-of-sight simultaneously. This enabled the first. sub-second (0.1 s), high-resolution (140 mu m), 2D laser-absorption measurements and tomographic reconstruction of flame temperature and CO mole fraction using mid-infrared wavelengths. Prior to entering the test gas, the beam was reflected oil two diffusers spinning at 90,000 RPM (approximate to 9400 rad/s) to break the laser coherence and prevent diffraction-induced image artifacts. This technique was validated with measurements of CO in an isothermal jet and then demonstrated in laminar, partially premixed, oxygen-ethylene flames despite large background emission from soot and combustion products. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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