{"id":159678,"date":"2023-03-06T21:25:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T03:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/single-pulse-real-time-billion-frames-per-second-planar-imaging-of-ultrafast-nanoparticle-laser-dynamics"},"modified":"2023-03-06T21:25:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T03:25:49","slug":"single-pulse-real-time-billion-frames-per-second-planar-imaging-of-ultrafast-nanoparticle-laser-dynamics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/single-pulse-real-time-billion-frames-per-second-planar-imaging-of-ultrafast-nanoparticle-laser-dynamics","title":{"rendered":"Single-pulse real-time billion-frames-per-second planar imaging of ultrafast nanoparticle-laser dynamics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GJngPuBSMlY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The soot produced by unburnt hydrocarbon flames is the second largest contributor to global warming, while also harming human health. Researchers have developed state-of-the-art, high-speed imaging techniques to study turbulent flames, yet they are limited to an imaging rate of million-frames-per-second. Physicists are therefore keen to obtain a complete picture of flame-laser interactions via single-pulse imaging.<\/p>\n<p>In a new report published in <i>Light: Science &amp; Applications<\/i>, Yogeshwar Nath Mishra and a research team at the Caltech Optical Imaging Laboratory, the NASA Jet propulsion lab, department of physics, and the Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics in the U.S., and Germany, used single-shot laser-sheet comprised ultrafast photography per billion frames per second, for the first time, to observe the dynamics of laser-flames.<\/p>\n<p>The team noted laser-induced incandescence, elastic light scattering and the fluorescence of soot precursors such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/biomonitoring\/PAHs_FactSheet.html\">polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/real-time\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">real-time<\/a>, with a single nanosecond laser pulse. The research outcomes provide strong experimental evidence to support soot inception and growth mechanisms in flames. Mishra and the team combined a variety of techniques to probe the short-lived species in turbulent environments to unravel the mysteries of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plasma-universe.com\/plasma-classification-types-of-plasma\/\">hot plasma<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/science\/doe-explainsnuclear-fusion-reactions\">nuclear fusion<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/acoustics-research.physics.ucla.edu\/sonoluminescence\/\">sonoluminescence<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The soot produced by unburnt hydrocarbon flames is the second largest contributor to global warming, while also harming human health. Researchers have developed state-of-the-art, high-speed imaging techniques to study turbulent flames, yet they are limited to an imaging rate of million-frames-per-second. Physicists are therefore keen to obtain a complete picture of flame-laser interactions via single-pulse [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,4,219,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-nanotechnology","category-physics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}