Characterization of vorticity in fluids by a spatially shaped laser beam

Autor: Manoochehr Koochesfahani, Marcos Dantus, Anton Ryabtsev, Shahram Pouya
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: SPIE Proceedings.
ISSN: 0277-786X
DOI: 10.1117/12.2080238
Popis: Measuring the speed and direction of vortices is of great importance in fluid dynamics. We report on the use of a CW laser beam with a superposition of Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) modes generated by a phase mask imprinted on a two-dimensional spatial light modulator. The shaped beam is then guided and scattered of a sample which is rotated; the rotational frequency is extracted from spectral analysis of the scattered light. This method allows for virtually real-time determination of vorticity characterization in a fluid.
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