A multi-point focused laser differential interferometer for characterizing freestream disturbances in hypersonic wind tunnels

GI Gillespie, AP Ceruzzi, SJ Laurence - Experiments in Fluids, 2022 - Springer
A three-point Focused Laser Differential Interferometer (FLDI) instrument was implemented
to investigate the freestream disturbance environment in a Mach-6 shock tunnel. The FLDI …

Interpreting single-point and two-point focused laser differential interferometry in a turbulent jet

AP Ceruzzi, CP Cadou - Experiments in Fluids, 2022 - Springer
Focused laser differential interferometry (FLDI) and its relative two-point FLDI (2pFLDI) are
used to make density fluctuation and velocity measurements, respectively, in a canonical …

Focused Laser Differential Interferometry: Recent Developments and Applications for Flow Measurements

EK Benitez, A Ceruzzi, M Gragston… - AIAA SCITECH 2025 …, 2025 - arc.aiaa.org
Focused laser differential interferometry (FLDI), first introduced in the 1970s, has developed
into a powerful tool for the analysis of turbulent dynamics and fluctuations in fluid flows …

Optical-axis spatial sensitivity of a simulated focused laser differential interferometer

EK Benitez, MP Borg, C Rhodes, JS Jewell - AIAA Journal, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
A focused laser differential interferometer (FLDI) simulation was used to study the sensitivity
of the FLDI technique to a variety of factors. The model takes in a series of density fields and …

Development of two-point focused laser differential interferometry for applications in high-speed wind tunnels

A Ceruzzi - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Focused laser differential interferometry (FLDI) and its relative two-point focused laser
differential interferometry (2pFLDI) are completely non-intrusive (ie seedless) optical …

Analysis of the amplitude response of a two-point and a multi-point focused laser differential interferometer

BF Bathel, JM Weisberger, GC Herring… - AIAA SciTech 2021 …, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2021-0598. vid Experiments were
performed with two different focused laser differential interferometer (FLDI) instruments to …

Linear array photodiode and data acquisition system development for multi-point line FLDI measurements

JM Weisberger, BF Bathel, JW Lee… - AIAA Scitech 2022 …, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-1796. vid The continuous
development and advancement of multi-point line focused laser differential interferometry …

Modification of Mach 6 Freestream Flow by Pitot Probe Bow Shock as Measured by Line FLDI and SAFS

JM Weisberger, BF Bathel, GC Herring… - AIAA SciTech 2025 …, 2025 - arc.aiaa.org
Measurements of the flow in front of flat-face Pitot probes in NASA Langley Research
Center's 20-Inch Mach 6 Air Tunnel were made using a 35-point line focused laser …

Simulated focused laser differential interferometry of time-varying signals

EK Benitez, JS Jewell - AIAA Scitech 2022 Forum, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-1312. vid A model of a focused
laser differential interferometer (FLDI) was modified to simulate the response to time-varying …

Simultaneous focused laser differential interferometry and high-speed schlieren in a Mach 6 flow

BF Bathel, GC Herring, JM Weisberger… - Measurement …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
An instrument is demonstrated that is capable of simultaneous and independent flow density
fluctuation measurements over the same line-of-sight by combining two optical techniques …