Quantitative C2H2 measurements in sooty flames using mid-infrared polarization spectroscopy

ZW Sun, ZS Li, B Li, ZT Alwahabi, M Aldén - Applied Physics B, 2010 - Springer
Quantitative measurements of acetylene (C 2 H 2) molecules as a combustion intermediate
species in a series of rich premixed C 2 H 4/air flames were non-intrusively performed …

Development of injection-seeded, pulsed optical parametric generator/oscillator systems for high-resolution spectroscopy

WD Kulatilaka, TN Anderson, TL Bougher, RP Lucht - Applied Physics B, 2005 - Springer
We report the development and application of pulsed optical parametric generator (OPG)
and optical parametric oscillator (OPO) systems that are injection seeded with near-infrared …

Measurement of orientation and alignment moment relaxation by polarization spectroscopy: Theory and experiment

ML Costen, HJ Crichton, KG McKendrick - The Journal of chemical …, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
A diagrammatic perturbation theory description of one-color polarization spectroscopy (PS)
is developed which emphasizes the significance of orientation and alignment tensor …

Orientation and alignment moments in two-color polarization spectroscopy

ML Costen, KG McKendrick - The Journal of chemical physics, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
A theoretical analysis of two-color polarization spectroscopy (TCPS) is presented as an
extension of a previous analysis of one-color PS. Three commonly used schemes in which …

Experimental investigation of saturated polarization spectroscopy for quantitative concentration measurements

TA Reichardt, WC Giancola, RP Lucht - Applied Optics, 2000 - opg.optica.org
Polarization-spectroscopy (PS) line shapes and signal intensities are measured in well-
characterized hydrogen–air flames operated over a wide range of equivalence ratios. We …

Effect of collisions on one-color polarization spectroscopy of OH

HJ Crichton, ML Costen, KG McKendrick - The Journal of chemical …, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
The effect of collisions on the magnitude of polarization spectroscopy (PS) signals from the
OH radical on the A 2 Σ+–X 2 Π (0, 0) band has been studied. OH was produced by the 266 …

Dependence of partially saturated polarization spectroscopy signals on pump intensity and collision rate

J Walewski, CF Kaminski, SF Hanna, RP Lucht - Physical Review A, 2001 - APS
Understanding the saturation behavior of polarization-spectroscopy signals is a vital task for
the development of this method as a versatile tool for quantitative detection of trace species …

Development of an optical parametric generator with pulsed dye amplification for high-resolution laser spectroscopy

AH Bhuiyan, DR Richardson, SV Naik, RP Lucht - Applied Physics B, 2009 - Springer
An injection-seeded optical parametric generator (OPG), coupled with three pulsed dye
amplification (PDA) stages, was shown to produce tunable, narrow linewidth laser radiation …

Calculation of radiative transition rates for polarized laser radiation

RP Lucht, S Roy, TA Reichardt - Progress in energy and combustion …, 2003 - Elsevier
The calculation of laser-induced radiative transition rates for electric-dipole transitions is
reviewed. The effects of laser polarization can only be understood by considering the …

Velocity selective bipolarization spectroscopy for laser cooling of metastable krypton atoms

YB Kale, VB Tiwari, S Singh, SR Mishra, HS Rawat - JOSA B, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We report a velocity selective bipolarization spectroscopy (VS-BPS) technique to generate a
background-free, dispersion-like reference signal which is tunable over a wide range of …