Modern Optical Methods in Gas Dynamic Research

Recent Researches in Shock-Tube Spectroscopy.- Abstract.- Shock Tubes and the Spectroscopic Method.- Shock-Tube Spectroscopy of Astrophysically Important Diatomic Molecules.- Diagnostic Shock-Tube Spectra and the Kinetic Study of Collision Processes.- References.- Radiative Diagnostics Nonequilibrium Flows.- Nonequilibrium Emission Measurements.- Absorption Measurements in the Vacuum Ultraviolet.- Summary.- References.- Temperature Errors in Plasma Diagnostics and Their Possible Effects on Absolute Transition Probabilities.- Determination of Plasma Temperature from Relative gf-Values The AFCRL Shock Tube Absolute gf-Value.- Program Using Ultrasonics.- Errors in the Corliss and Bozman NBA Free-Burning ARC gf-Values.- Conclusion.- References.- Impurity Measurements in the Expansion Tube.- References.- Some Aspects of the Refractive Behavior of Gases.- Constitutive Properties and Wave Propagation in a Medium.- Lorentz Electron Theory of Dispersion.- The Dispersion Function.- Spectral Interferometry: The Hook Method.- Special Features.- References.- Interferometric Gas Diagnostics by the Hook Method.- The Experimental Setup.- Mach-Zehnder Interferometers.- Stigmatic Spectrographs, Detectors and Light Sources.- Theoretical Aspects of the Hook Method, Review of Experiments.- Summary.- References.- Hook Interferometry Using a Single Plate Interferometer.- References.- Some Optical Diagnostic Techniques Involving High Power Lasers.- Laser-Produced Plasma Studies in the Nanosecond Region.- Laser-Produced Plasma Studies with Subnanosecond Resolution.- Recent Developments.- References.- Pulse Laser Holographic Interferometry.- Principles of Holography.- Holographic Interferometry.- Cine-Interferometry.- The Analysis of Plasma by Light Scattering.- Elements of the Theory.- Experimental Procedures.- A Scattering Experiment.- References.- Laser - Generation of Rarefied Plasma Flows.- Abstract.- Apparatus.- Measurements on Laser-Produced Flows.- Study of Counter-Streaming Ionized Flows.- References.- A Summary of Recent Research on Continuous-Wave Chemical Lasers.- Four Basic Processes Influence CW Chemical Laser Operation.- Approach One: Laser Action Directly from Product Molecules in Fluid Mixing Chemical Lasers.- A Second Approach: Laser Action by Selective Energy Transfer from Produce Molecules in Fluid Mixing Chemical Lasers.- A Comparison of Approaches One and Two.- Total Population Inversion.- A Third Approach: A CW Explosion or Detonation Wave Chemical Laser.- Conclusion.- References.- Excitation of Gases Using Wavelength-Tunable Lasers.- Abstract.- Organic Dye Lasers.- Semiconductor Lasers.- Nonlinear Optical Techniques.- Resonant Interactions Between Lasers and Gases.- References.- Bibliography of Dye Laser Papers.- Production of Non-Equilibrium Atomic Populations Using Tunable Laser Excitation.- Notes.- Recent Studies of the Cs2/O2 Combustion Laser.- Abstract.- Transversely Sparked Laser.- CW Combustion Laser.- Summary and Conclusions.- References.