This paper introduces an optical measurement system for shock wave characteristics. The system works by mountinga metal plate attached to spring mounts against the shock wavefront. This set is sealed and can plot the shock wave pressure diagram by measuring plate's displacement, radiation and changing the reflection of light during shock wave conflict, and converting these optical data to volta...

A novel approach to simultaneously measure the translational temperature, bulk velocity, and density in gases by collecting, referencing, and analyzing nanosecond time-scale Rayleigh scattered light from molecules is described. A narrow-band pulsed laser source is used to probe two largely separated measurement locations, one of which is used for reference. The elastically scattered photons con...

A new photothermal technique was developed for measuring the flow velocity and making solute concentration measurements in a microchip by using the same optical and instrumental setup. Collinear pump and probe light were irradiated onto a microchip surface on which a grating pattern was fabricated. The pump light induced a temperature change with the grating pattern in a microchannel, and a ref...

We report a novel laser-Doppler velocity profile sensor for microfluidic and nanofluidic applications and turbulence research. The sensors design is based on wavelength-division multiplexing. The high dispersion of a diffractive lens is used to generate a measurement volume with convergent and divergent interference fringes by means of two laser wavelengths. Evaluation of the scattered light fr...

In order to overcome existing complicated and costly simultaneous measurement system, an inexpensive and simple measurement system was suggested to measure the temperature field and velocity field at high temperature. The manganese-activated magnesium fluorogermanate (Mg4FGe6:Mn, MFG) which is one of thermographic phosphor with luminescence characteristic of excitation at 385 nm wavelength and ...

Kuzmichev recently showed that use of phase velocity rather than group velocity for Cherenkov light signals and pulses from calibration lasers in high-energy neutrino telescopes leads to errors in track reconstruction and distance measurement. We amplify on his remarks and show that errors for four cases of interest to AMANDA, IceCube, and RICE (radio Cherenkov detector) are negligibly small.