An optical fibre delivery system for pulsed laser particle image velocimetry illumination
- 1 June 1995
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Measurement Science and Technology
- Vol. 6 (6) , 809-814
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0957-0233/6/6/017
Abstract
We demonstrate the design and implementation of a fibre-optic beam delivery system for particle image velocimetry applications. The system is designed for the transmission of pulses of high peak power from a Q-switched and frequency-doubled Nd:YAG laser with energies typically in the range of 9 mJ; it is hence suitable for illuminating air flows. Practical laser-induced damage thresholds for large-core step-index multimode fibres are determined, and through exploitation of inter-modal dispersion in the fibre, intensity variations in the output from the fibre due to laser speckle are suppressed to a visibility of -1.Keywords
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