Recent progress in high-speed laser diagnostics for hypersonic flows

N Jiang, PS Hsu, M Gragston, S Roy - Applied Optics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The recent progress in high-speed (≥ 100k H z) laser diagnostics for hypersonic flows is
reviewed. Owing to the ultrahigh flow speed, a laser frequency of 100 kHz or higher is …

Linear and 2D arrays for Focused Laser Differential Interferometry using a high-speed camera

S Holladay, Z Zhang - Optics Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
Since the introduction of linear array focused laser differential interferometry (LA-FLDI), its
use has rapidly proliferated as it extends the capabilities of FLDI to multiple measurement …

Global analysis of nonlinear second-mode development in a Mach-6 boundary layer from high-speed schlieren data

CE Sousa, RE Kennedy, RA King, BF Bathel… - Experiments in …, 2024 - Springer
The second-mode instability on a 7° half-angle sharp cone at Mach 6 is analyzed using high-
speed calibrated schlieren imagery at a frame rate near the expected fundamental …

Non-intrusive velocimetry in a supersonic reacting flow using two-point focused laser differential interferometry

A Ceruzzi, M Kanapathipillai, KH Yu… - AIAA SCITECH 2023 …, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-0223. vid Two-point focused laser
differential interferometry (2pFLDI) is shown to be a viable technique for making non …

Experimental Verification of a Modified Cylindrical Focused Laser Differential Interferometer

KJ Hopkins, R Ananthapadmanaban… - Journal of Spacecraft …, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
A modification to cylindrical focused laser differential interferometry (CFLDI) that, without
beam intersection, can achieve smaller stand-off distances from flat geometries than …

Programmable focused laser differential interferometer with a spatial light modulator as a dynamic diffractive optical element

S Holladay, Z Zhang - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
A spatial light modulator (SLM) is incorporated into a focused laser differential interferometer
(FLDI) to generate a nonlinear array of beams, and this setup is used to measure the power …

Multi-depth focused laser differential interferometer based on chromatic aberration

N Webber, R Constantin, S Edwards, M Gragston - Applied Optics, 2024 - opg.optica.org
A modified version of focused laser differential interferometry (FLDI) is demonstrated with
adjacent beam pairs distributed along the optical axis. This feature is accomplished using …

Camera-Based Detection of Cylindrical Lens Based Focused Laser Differential Interferometry

JR Chism, ZM Shoppell, M Gragston… - AIAA SCITECH 2024 …, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
This work demonstrates the capability of a high speed camera as a detector for focused
laser differential interferometry (FLDI) a cylindrical lens setup. To test the system's capability …

Development of Time-Domain Femtosecond Laser Electronic Excitation Tagging via Linear Photodiode Arrays

DW Carter, R Spillers, JC Pehrson, R Bhakta… - AIAA SCITECH 2024 …, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
We explore a novel variation on the application of Femtosecond Laser Electronic Excitation
Tagging (FLEET) to experimentally determine the stream-wise velocity in high-speed flow at …

Study of Bluntness-Induced Elongated Structures using Variable Beam Separation FLDI

AR Berger, MP Borg - AIAA AVIATION 2023 Forum, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-3703. vid The effect of variable
beam separation on the performance of Focused Laser Differential Interferometry (FLDI) in …