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Braun EL, Slipchenko MN, Roy S, Meyer TR. Spatially multiplexed femtosecond/picosecond coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering for multipoint array measurements. OPTICS LETTERS 2022; 47:5280-5283. [PMID: 36240342 DOI: 10.1364/ol.472645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2022] [Accepted: 09/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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A novel, to the best of our knowledge, method for multipoint hybrid femtosecond/picosecond rotational coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering measurements is presented. The pump/Stokes and probe beams are each split into 16 discrete points with 90 and 24 µJ/pulse, respectively, using simple diffractive optical elements, which are used in combination with a focusing lens and narrowband spectral amplifier for 1 kHz excitation along a linear array of probe volumes. Single-shot and averaged temperature and O2/N2 profile measurements are demonstrated along a line with 1 mm spacing in room temperature and heated N2 flows. This enables measurements over varying spatial extents for 1D profiles and potentially 2D grids in a simple and compact optical arrangement.
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Steinmetz SA, Kliewer CJ. Phase matching in two-dimensional coherent Raman imaging. OPTICS EXPRESS 2020; 28:34586-34596. [PMID: 33182923 DOI: 10.1364/oe.405517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2020] [Accepted: 10/21/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) is a valuable spectroscopic tool for the measurement of temperature and species concentration. In recent years, multi-dimensional CARS has seen focused development and is especially important in reacting flows. An important aspect of multi-dimensional CARS is the phase-matching scheme used. Historically, collinear and BOXCARS phase-matching schemes have been used to achieve phase matching over a broad spectral range. For 1-D and 2-D CARS imaging, two-beam or counter-propagating beam arrangements are necessary. The two-beam arrangement offers many advantages, but introduces a phase mismatch which limits the spectral response of the measurement. This work explores the tradeoffs in spatial resolution, spectral bandwidth, and CARS intensity in 2-D CARS arrangements. Calculations are made for two-beam and counter-propagating beam CARS.
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Smyser ME, Braun EL, Athmanathan V, Slipchenko MN, Roy S, Meyer TR. Dual-output fs/ps burst-mode laser for megahertz-rate rotational coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering. OPTICS LETTERS 2020; 45:5933-5936. [PMID: 33137036 DOI: 10.1364/ol.404984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2020] [Accepted: 09/25/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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A burst-mode laser system is developed for hybrid femtosecond/picosecond (fs/ps) rotational coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (RCARS) at megahertz rates. Using a common fs oscillator, the system simultaneously generates time synchronized 1061 nm, 274 fs and 1064 nm, 15.5 ps pulses with peak powers of 350 MW and 2.5 MW, respectively. The system is demonstrated for two-beam fs/ps RCARS in N2 at 1 MHz with a signal-to-noise ratio of 176 at room temperature. This repetition rate is an order of magnitude higher than previous CARS using burst-mode ps laser systems and two to three orders of magnitude faster than previous continuously pulsed fs or fs/ps laser systems.
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Richardson DR, Kearney SP, Guildenbecher DR. Three-beam rotational coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy thermometry in scattering environments. APPLIED OPTICS 2020; 59:8293-8301. [PMID: 32976415 DOI: 10.1364/ao.392110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2020] [Accepted: 08/10/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Three-beam rotational coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) measurements performed in highly scattering environments are susceptible to contamination by two-beam CARS signals generated by the pump-probe and Stokes-probe interactions at the measurement volume. If this occurs, differences in the Raman excitation bandwidth between the two-beam and three-beam CARS signals can add significant errors to the spectral analysis. This interference to the best of our knowledge has not been acknowledged in previous three-beam rotational CARS experiments, but may introduce measurement errors up to 25% depending on the temperature, amount of scattering, and differences between the two-beam and three-beam Raman excitation bandwidths. In this work, the presence of two-beam CARS signal contamination was experimentally verified using a femtosecond-picosecond rotational CARS instrument in two scattering environments: (1) a fireball generated by a laboratory-scale explosion that contained particulate matter, metal fragments, and soot, and (2) a flow of air and small liquid droplets. A polarization scheme is presented to overcome this interference. By rotating the pump and Stokes polarizations +55∘ and -55∘ from the probe, respectively, the two-beam and three-beam CARS signals are orthogonally polarized and can be separated using a polarization analyzer. Using this polarization arrangement, the Raman-resonant three-beam CARS signal amplitude is reduced by a factor of 2.3 compared to the case where all polarizations are parallel. This method is successfully demonstrated in both scattering environments. A theoretical model is presented, and the temperature measurement error is studied for different experimental conditions. The criteria for when this interference may be present are discussed.
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Patnaik AK, Adamovich I, Gord JR, Roy S. Recent advances in ultrafast-laser-based spectroscopy and imaging for reacting plasmas and flames. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017. [DOI: 10.1088/1361-6595/aa8578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Richardson DR, Stauffer HU, Roy S, Gord JR. Comparison of chirped-probe-pulse and hybrid femtosecond/picosecond coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering for combustion thermometry. APPLIED OPTICS 2017; 56:E37-E49. [PMID: 28414340 DOI: 10.1364/ao.56.000e37] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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A comparison is made between two ultrashort-pulse coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) thermometry techniques-hybrid femtosecond/picosecond (fs/ps) CARS and chirped-probe-pulse (CPP) fs-CARS-that have become standards for high-repetition-rate thermometry in the combustion diagnostics community. These two variants of fs-CARS differ only in the characteristics of the ps-duration probe pulse; in hybrid fs/ps CARS a spectrally narrow, time-asymmetric probe pulse is used, whereas a highly chirped, spectrally broad probe pulse is used in CPP fs-CARS. Temperature measurements were performed using both techniques in near-adiabatic flames in the temperature range 1600-2400 K and for probe time delays of 0-30 ps. Under these conditions, both techniques are shown to exhibit similar temperature measurement accuracies and precisions to previously reported values and to each other. However, it is observed that initial calibration fits to the spectrally broad CPP results require more fitting parameters and a more robust optimization algorithm and therefore significantly increased computational cost and complexity compared to the fitting of hybrid fs/ps CARS data. The optimized model parameters varied more for the CPP measurements than for the hybrid fs/ps measurements for different experimental conditions.
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Miller JD, Slipchenko MN, Mance JG, Roy S, Gord JR. 1-kHz two-dimensional coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (2D-CARS) for gas-phase thermometry. OPTICS EXPRESS 2016; 24:24971-24979. [PMID: 27828437 DOI: 10.1364/oe.24.024971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Two-dimensional gas-phase coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (2D-CARS) thermometry is demonstrated at 1 kHz in a heated jet. A hybrid femtosecond/picosecond CARS configuration is used in a two-beam phase-matching arrangement with a 100-femtosecond pump/Stokes pulse and a 107-picosecond probe pulse. The femtosecond pulse is generated using a mode-locked oscillator and regenerative amplifier that is synchronized to a separate picosecond oscillator and burst-mode amplifier. The CARS signal is spectrally dispersed in a custom imaging spectrometer and detected using a high-speed camera with image intensifier. 1-kHz, single-shot planar measurements at room temperature exhibit error of 2.6% and shot-to-shot variations of 2.6%. The spatial variation in measured temperature is 9.4%. 2D-CARS temperature measurements are demonstrated in a heated O2 jet to capture the spatiotemporal evolution of the temperature field.
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Stauffer HU, Roy S, Schmidt JB, Wrzesinski PJ, Gord JR. Two-color vibrational, femtosecond, fully resonant electronically enhanced CARS (FREE-CARS) of gas-phase nitric oxide. J Chem Phys 2016; 145:124308. [PMID: 27782654 DOI: 10.1063/1.4962834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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A resonantly enhanced, two-color, femtosecond time-resolved coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) approach is demonstrated and used to explore the nature of the frequency- and time-dependent signals produced by gas-phase nitric oxide (NO). Through careful selection of the input pulse wavelengths, this fully resonant electronically enhanced CARS (FREE-CARS) scheme allows rovibronic-state-resolved observation of time-dependent rovibrational wavepackets propagating on the vibrationally excited ground-state potential energy surface of this diatomic species. Despite the use of broadband, ultrafast time-resolved input pulses, high spectral resolution of gas-phase rovibronic transitions is observed in the FREE-CARS signal, dictated by the electronic dephasing timescales of these states. Analysis and computational simulation of the time-dependent spectra observed as a function of pump-Stokes and Stokes-probe delays provide insight into the rotationally resolved wavepacket motion observed on the excited-state and vibrationally excited ground-state potential energy surfaces of NO, respectively.
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- Hans U Stauffer
- Spectral Energies, LLC, 5100 Springfield St., Suite 301, Dayton, Ohio 45431, USA
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- Spectral Energies, LLC, 5100 Springfield St., Suite 301, Dayton, Ohio 45431, USA
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- Spectral Energies, LLC, 5100 Springfield St., Suite 301, Dayton, Ohio 45431, USA
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- Aerospace Systems Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433, USA
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- Aerospace Systems Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433, USA
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Roy S, Hsu PS, Jiang N, Slipchenko MN, Gord JR. 100-kHz-rate gas-phase thermometry using 100-ps pulses from a burst-mode laser. OPTICS LETTERS 2015; 40:5125-5128. [PMID: 26512535 DOI: 10.1364/ol.40.005125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Temperature measurements based on gas-phase coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) spectroscopy are demonstrated in reacting flows at a rate of 100 kHz employing a burst-mode laser with a pulse duration of ∼100 ps. The recently developed picosecond-duration, high-energy burst-mode laser is used to pump an optical parametric generator/optical parametric amplifier that produces broadband light centered at ∼680 nm to provide the Stokes beams for excitation of the rovibrational Raman transitions of H(2). The 532-nm output of the picosecond burst-mode laser is then utilized as a pump beam for the CARS process that generates 100 single-shot spectra at a rate of 100 kHz during the 1-ms duration burst. Coherent spectroscopy-based temperature measurements at 100 kHz will significantly aid the understanding of transient and unsteady flow phenomena related to turbulent combustion, transonic and hypersonic flows, high-enthalpy flows, and the dynamics of energetic materials.
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Balakrishnan G, Soldatova A, Reid PJ, Spiro TG. Ultrafast charge transfer in nickel phthalocyanine probed by femtosecond Raman-induced Kerr effect spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 2014; 136:8746-54. [PMID: 24841906 PMCID: PMC4136751 DOI: 10.1021/ja503541v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2014] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The recently developed technique of femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy, and its variant, femtosecond Raman-induced Kerr effect spectroscopy (FRIKES), offer access to ultrafast excited-state dynamics via structurally specific vibrational spectra. We have used FRIKES to study the photoexcitation dynamics of nickel(II) phthalocyanine with eight butoxy substituents, NiPc(OBu)8. NiPc(OBu)8 is reported to have a relatively long-lived ligand-to-metal charge-transfer (LMCT) state, an essential characteristic for efficient electron transfer in photocatalysis. Following photoexcitation, vibrational transitions in the FRIKES spectra, assignable to phthalocyanine ring modes, evolve on the femtosecond to picosecond time scales. Correlation of ring core size with the frequency of the ν10 (asymmetric C-N stretching) mode confirms the identity of the LMCT state, which has a ∼500 ps lifetime, as well as that of a precursor d-d excited state. An even earlier (∼0.2 ps) transient is observed and tentatively assigned to a higher-lying Jahn-Teller-active LMCT state. This study illustrates the power of FRIKES spectroscopy in elucidating ultrafast molecular dynamics.
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- Gurusamy Balakrishnan
- Department of Chemistry, University
of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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V. Soldatova
- Department of Chemistry, University
of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University
of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University
of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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Bohlin A, Kliewer CJ. Diagnostic Imaging in Flames with Instantaneous Planar Coherent Raman Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett 2014; 5:1243-1248. [PMID: 26274479 DOI: 10.1021/jz500384y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Spatial mapping of temperature and molecular species concentrations is vitally important in studies of gaseous chemically reacting flows. Temperature marks the evolution of heat release and energy transfer, while species concentration gradients provide critical information on mixing and chemical reaction. Coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS) was pioneered in measurements of such processes almost 40 years ago and is authoritative in terms of the accuracy and precision it may provide. While a reacting flow is fully characterized in three-dimensional space, a limitation of CARS has been its applicability as a point-wise measurement technique, motivating advancement toward CARS imaging, and attempts have been made considering one-dimensional probing. Here, we report development of two-dimensional CARS, with the first diagnostics of a planar field in a combusting flow within a single laser pulse, resulting in measured isotherms ranging from 450 K up to typical hydrocarbon flame temperatures of about 2000 K with chemical mapping of O2 and N2.
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- A Bohlin
- Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551, United States
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- Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California 94551, United States
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Stauffer HU, Miller JD, Slipchenko MN, Meyer TR, Prince BD, Roy S, Gord JR. Time- and frequency-dependent model of time-resolved coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) with a picosecond-duration probe pulse. J Chem Phys 2014; 140:024316. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4860475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Königsmann F, Schwentner N, Anderson DT. Time resolved dynamics of phonons and rotons in solid parahydrogen. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2013; 15:17435-51. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cp52055b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Miller JD, Roy S, Slipchenko MN, Gord JR, Meyer TR. Single-shot gas-phase thermometry using pure-rotational hybrid femtosecond/picosecond coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering. OPTICS EXPRESS 2011; 19:15627-15640. [PMID: 21934925 DOI: 10.1364/oe.19.015627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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High-repetition-rate, single-laser-shot measurements are important for the investigation of unsteady flows where temperature and species concentrations can vary significantly. Here, we demonstrate single-shot, pure-rotational, hybrid femtosecond/picosecond coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (fs/ps RCARS) thermometry based on a kHz-rate fs laser source. Interferences that can affect nanosecond (ns) and ps CARS, such as nonresonant background and collisional dephasing, are eliminated by selecting an appropriate time delay between the 100-fs pump/Stokes pulses and the pulse-shaped 8.4-ps probe. A time- and frequency-domain theoretical model is introduced to account for rotational-level dependent collisional dephasing and indicates that the optimal probe-pulse time delay is 13.5 ps to 30 ps. This time delay allows for uncorrected best-fit N2-RCARS temperature measurements with ~1% accuracy. Hence, the hybrid fs/ps RCARS approach can be performed with kHz-rate laser sources while avoiding corrections that can be difficult to predict in unsteady flows.
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- Joseph D Miller
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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