To meet the ignition system needs of large bore high pressure lean burn natural gas engines a laser diode side pumped passively Q-switched laser igniter was designed and tested. The laser was designed to produce the optical intensities needed to initiate ignition in a lean burn high brake mean effective pressure (BMEP) engine. The experimentation explored a variety of optical and electrical input parameters that when combined produced a robust spark in air. The results show peak power levels exceeding 2 MW and peak focal intensities above 400 GW/cm2. Future research avenues and current progress with the initial prototype are presented and discussed.
Laser Spark Plug Development
Sae Technical Papers
SAE World Congress & Exhibition ; 2007
2007-04-16
Conference paper
English
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2007
|Automotive engineering | 2007
|2007-01-1600 Laser Spark Plug Development
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2007
|2007-01-1600 Laser Spark Plug Development
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2007
|Development of new automotive spark plug
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