Abstract

Gas-phase pressure measurements remain challenging in situations where local pressure rapidly changes or in hostile environments such as turbulent combustion. In this work, we demonstrate the implementation of the recently developed femtosecond laser-induced grating scattering (fs-LIGS) technique for pressure measurement in ambient air. With an overall femtosecond laser pulse energy of 185 μJ, fs-LIGS signals were generated for various gas pressure ranging from 0.2 to 3.0 bar. By theoretically fitting the signal and extracting the time constant of the stationary density modulation damping, the pressure is successfully derived. The derived values were compared to the gauge pressure, which shows a quasi-linear dependence with a slope of 0.96, suggesting the feasibility of the fs-LIGS technique for gas-phase pressure measurements.

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