The editors have assembled a world-class group of contributors who address the questions
the combustion diagnostic community faces. They are chemists who identify the species to …

Fifty years after the foundation of the Combustion Institute and almost 150 years after
Michael Faraday's famous lectures on the combustion of a candle, combustion diagnostics …

The physics of polarization spectroscopy (PS) is investigated by direct numerical integration
of the time-dependent density matrix equations. The Zeeman structure of the upper and …

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 …

Judicious selection of polarization characteristics in degenerate four-wave mixing (DFWM)
spectroscopy is shown to provide a facile and robust means for discriminating rovibronic …

The collisional dependence of polarization spectroscopy (PS) with a picosecond-pulse laser
is investigated theoretically with a perturbative treatment and experimentally by probing …

The physics of the degenerate four-wave mixing process for resonant transitions between
two degenerate energy levels is investigated by direct numerical integration of the time …

The physics of short-pulse polarization spectroscopy (PS) and the diagnostic potential for
quantitative measurements of species concentration are investigated by direct numerical …

Time-resolved two-color resonant four-wave-mixing spectroscopy was used to investigate
collisions affecting the ground electronic state of the hydroxyl radical. Picosecond laser …

Using tunable ultraviolet picosecond laser pulses pump-probe degenerate four-wave mixing
(DFWM) and polarization spectroscopy experiments were conducted in atmospheric …