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Single-shot thermometry and OH detection via femtosecond fully resonant electronically enhanced CARS (FREE-CARS)

Abstract

Femtosecond time-resolved, fully resonant electronically enhanced coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (FREE-CARS) spectroscopy, incorporating a two-color excitation scheme, is used to demonstrate selective and sensitive gas-phase detection of the hydroxyl (OH) radical in a reacting flow. Spectral resolution of the emitted FREE-CARS signal allows simultaneous detection of temperature and relative OH mole fraction under single-laser-shot conditions in a laminar ethylene–air flame. By comparison to previously reported OH concentration and temperature measurements, we demonstrate excellent single-shot temperature accuracies (2% deviation from adiabatic flame temperature) and precisions (2% standard deviation), with simultaneous relative OH concentration measurements that demonstrate high detection sensitivity (100–300 ppm).

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