Fabry-Perot interferometer development for rocket engine plume spectroscopy
Abstract
This paper describes a new rugged high-resolution Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) designed for rocket engine plume spectroscopy, which is capable of detecting spectral signatures of eroding engine components during rocket engine tests and/or flight operations. The FPI system will make it possible to predict and to respond to the incipient rocket engine failures and to indicate the presence of rocket components degradation. The design diagram of the FPI spectrometer is presented.
- Publication:
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AIAA, SAE, ASME, and ASEE, 26th Joint Propulsion Conference
- Pub Date:
- July 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990jpof.confW....B
- Keywords:
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- Fabry-Perot Interferometers;
- Flame Spectroscopy;
- Plumes;
- Rocket Engines;
- Failure Analysis;
- Hot Corrosion;
- Performance Prediction;
- Spectral Signatures;
- Instrumentation and Photography