Simultaneous determination of temperature and OH-concentration in flames using high-resolution laser-absorption spectroscopy

The development of tunable cw dye lasers with an extremely narrow bandwidth of <20 MHz and high stability in frequency and amplitude, which operate in the wavelength region from 2800 to 3150 Å by frequency doubling, has made possible the quantitative proof of the presence of OH with high-resolution laser-absorption spectroscopy.A method is presented, which allows the simultaneous measurement of temperature and OH-concentration by tuning across a suitable rotational line.