Ultrafast Advanced Optical Diagnostics for Large Scale Facilities

The talk will present recent developments and results using advanced optical diagnostics based on ultrafast lasers for non-intrusive measurements in gases and plasmas with high temporal and spatial resolution. Powered by femtosecond lasers, these diagnostics rely on nonlinear optical effects to enable measurements such as electron and gas densities, species concentration, temperature, flow velocity and electric fields in low temperature plasma devices and other gaseous applications. The talk will focus on deployments of mobile ultrafast laser-based systems in large scale facilities, and will present results on measuring velocity, temperature and species in plasma devices and hypersonic facilities.