APPLICATION OF LASER-INDUCED FLUORESCENCE AND CARS FOR COMBUSTION DIAGNOSTICS

Laser diagnostic techniques have during the last decade been successfu lly applied for diagnostics of combustion processes. The main advantag es with these techniques are that they are inherently non-intrusive an d that spatially as well as temporally resolved information can be ach ieved. The current paper will exemplify two different laser spectrosco pic techniques: Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF), and Coherent anti-St okes Raman Scattering (CARS), which are currently the most used laser techniques for temperature and species concentration measurements in c ombustion systems