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APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS
Volume 78, Issue 3-4, Pages 485-492Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00340-003-1370-9
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Laser-induced incandescence is a technique which enables the measurement of soot volume fractions. However, the laser-induced soot emission might be affected by a fluorescence background generally ascribed to the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compounds (PAHs) present at the soot location. In this paper, spatially resolved distributions of PAH absorbance and soot are obtained in sooting diffusion flames. The original method developed here consists in comparing the emission distributions induced by two different laser wavelengths: (1) at 1064 nm emission signals are exempt from PAH fluorescence and (2) at 532 nm both soot incandescence and PAH emission contribute to the total signal. In addition, the absolute absorption coefficient of the PAH mixture is determined by comparing absorption measurements obtained by cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) at 1064 nm and 532 nm. The proposed method can provide highly sensitive 2D imaging of PAHs and soot using the fundamental and the second-harmonic frequencies of a single YAG laser. Finally, 2D distributions of PAH absorbance and soot volume fraction calibrated by CRDS are obtained in two diffusion flames, particularly in a very low-sooting flame exhibiting a maximum PAH absorbance of 6x10(-4) cm(-1) and a maximum soot volume fraction of 3 ppb only. The respective spatial distributions of PAHs and soot are shown to vary with the initial C/O ratio.
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