Tunable Diode Laser Measurements on Nitric Oxide in a Hypersonic Wind Tunnel

摘要

A tunable infrared diode laser was used in the F4 high-enthalpy hypersonic wind tunnel at ONERA to make line-of-sight measurements on nitric oxide (NO). The NO is generated in the arc chamber and remains frozen in the hypersonic flow. We report the results of a medium enthalpy run. The R (14.5), _=3/2 doublet was recorded simultaneously in two views: one normal to the flow and the other biased at 63-deg to the flow axis. Spectra were recorded at 2 ms intervals during a tunnel run, and 30 sets of spectra were analyzed by a least-squares fitting procedure. The mean of the velocity measurements inferred from the Doppler shift of the doublet was 2740 m/s (_5/100).