Review of ultra-high repetition rate laser diagnostics for fluid dynamic measurements

Recent advances in ultra-high repetition rate (100?kHz and above) laser diagnostics for fluid dynamic measurements are reviewed. The development of the pulse burst laser system, which enabled several of these advances, is described. The pulse burst laser system produces high repetition rate output by slicing the output of a low power continuous wave laser and passing the resulting burst of pulses through a series of pulsed Nd:YAG amplifiers. Several systems have been built with output approaching 1.0 J/pulse over bursts of up to 100 pulses generated at between 50 and 1000?kHz. Combined with the capabilities of several types of commercially available high-speed cameras, these systems have been used to make a wide variety of high repetition rate and 3D flow measurements. Several examples of various high repetition rate laser diagnostics are described, including flow visualization, filtered Rayleigh scattering, planar Doppler velocimetry, particle image velocimetry, planar laser induced fluorescence, molecular tagging velocimetry and 3D flow visualization.

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