US-Federal Republic of Germany Cooperation in Pulsed Laser Studies

该奖项支持韦恩州立大学的埃哈德·w·罗特博士多次前往德国哥廷根，与马克斯·普朗克流动研究所的彼得·安德森博士在化学物理研究方面进行合作。他们正在研究脉冲紫外激光与分子的相互作用。他们将进行的一组实验涉及单量子态的激光制备，并研究它们随后与分子和/或与其他激光的相互作用。这需要在同一实验中使用三种激光器。第二种类型的研究应用较多，涉及马克斯普朗克研究所开发的一种新方法，用于激光分析涉及激光的燃烧。诱导预解离荧光（LIPF）。要建立一个针对大量物种的定量分析系统，还有很多工作要做。这将是共同努力的主题。此次合作为底特律地区的汽车燃烧诊断提供了可能性，通过与高素质和装备精良的德国合作者的直接经验。激光为化学诊断的应用提供了许多理想的特性。它们强度高，频带窄。宽度，快脉冲和相干性。光很容易操纵，并与镜子和镜头聚焦。可以很容易地利用这些理想特性的适当组合。LIPF提供了一个特殊的优势，它可以定量和简单地在大气压和更高的压力下使用，例如存在大气压火焰或内燃的压力。当探测器和计算机技术结合应用于燃烧时，这种技术尤其有前景。例如，这些应通过适当的控制和反馈技术导致燃料的最优化和污染物的最小化。这种快速、准确和简单的技术适用于各种商业过程，包括低温和高温湍流环境。

This award supports Dr. Erhard W. Rothe of Wayne State University for several trips to Goettingen, Germany, to collaborate in chemical physics research with Dr. Peter Anderson of the Max Planck Institute for Flow Research. They are studying interactions of pulsed ultraviolet laser light with molecules. One set of experiments they will carry out involves laser preparation of single quantum states and study of their subsequent interactions with molecules and/or with other laser light. This requires the use of three lasers on the same experiment. The second type of research is more applied and involves a new method, developed at the Max Planck Institute, for laser analysis of combustion involving laser.induced predissociative fluorescence (LIPF). Much remains to be done to make a quantitative analysis system for a large number of species. This will be the subject of joint effort. This collaboration offers the possibility of enhancing automotive combustion diagnostics in the Detroit area through direct experience with highly competent and well equipped German collaborators. Lasers offer many desirable features for application to chemical diagnostics. They have high intensity, narrow band.width, fast pulses and coherence. The light is easily manipulated and focussed with mirrors and lenses. Appropriate combinations of such desirable properties can be readily exploited. LIPF offer the particular advantage that it can be quantitatively and simply used at atmospheric and higher pressures, such as those that exist, for example, with atmospheric flames or with internal combustion. Such techniques are particularly promising when combined detector and computer technologies are applied to combustion. These should, for example, lead to optimization of fuels and minimization of pollutants by appropriate control and feedback technology. Such quick, accurate and simple techniques are applicable to a variety of commercial processes, including low and high temperature turbulent environments.