ABSTRACT
We report on spatially resolved simultaneous measurements of temperature and majority species concentrations along a line segment in a premixed laminar H(2)-air flame. The results are obtained from Raman and Rayleigh scattering by using a narrow-band KrF excimer laser and a spectrally and spatially resolving detector system that consists of a high-throughput spectrometer and a gated, intensified, two-dimensional CCD camera. The data presented here are integrated over 100 laser shots. Absolute density profiles of N(2), O(2), H(2)O, and H(2), as well as temperature profiles at various heights through the flame, are presented. A discussion of the required calibration procedures and a summary of the necessary spectroscopic background are also included in this paper.
ABSTRACT
A tunable, narrow-band ArF laser has been used for laser-induced fluorescence detection of NO in natural abundance in a flame experiment. P and R branches of the D(2)Sigmaupsilon' = 0?X(2)Pi(3/2,1/2)upsilon'' transition were observed probing rotational states between J'' = 19.5 and J'' = 44.5. A single-shot detection limit of 1 part in 10(6) was found with a monochromator-based, dispersed-fluorescence detection system. In an experimental setup, determination of undispersed laser-induced fluorescence detection limits at or below the 1-part-in-10(9) range should be possible, because the narrow-band laser can be used to suppress all other sources of contaminating fluorescence even for detection of trace NO. The NO B(2)Piupsilon' = 7 ? X(2)Piupsilon'' = 0 transition was also observed in a cell experiment but not in the flame and is reported here.
