Simultaneous imaging of flow and sound

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K. Ishikawa et al., ``Simultaneous imaging of flow and sound using high-speed parallel phase-shifting interferometry,'' Opt. Lett., vol.43, no.5, pp.991-994, 2018. [Paper

We proposed simultaneous imaging of flow and sound by using parallel phase-shifting interferometry and a high-speed polarization camera. The proposed method enables the visualization of flow and sound simultaneously by using the following two factors: (i) injection of the gas, whose density is different from the surrounding air, makes the flow visible to interferometry, and (ii) time-directional processing is applied for extracting the small-amplitude sound wave from the high-speed flow video. An experiment with a frame rate of 42,000 frames per second for visualizing the flow and sound emitted from a whistle was conducted. By applying time-directional processing to the obtained video, both flow emitted from the slit of the whistle and a spherical sound wave of 8.7 kHz were successively captured.

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