carspy 0.2.1

Synthesizing and fitting coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectra (CARS) in Python

CARSpy

Synthesizing and fitting coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectra in Python.

• Free software: BSD-3-Clause license

• Documentation: https://carspy.readthedocs.io

Background

Having no access to the source codes of any of the existing CARS programs, I started this project simply as a way to learn more about CARS. I ended up spending a lot of time sifting through literatures from the past decades, trying to figure out what were done to analyze experimental CARS spectra and how they were implemented. The latter proved rather challenging as specific implementations weren’t always laid out in sufficient (mathematical) details to facilitate comprehension and replication (e.g., things as trivial as units for different constants weren’t always made clear in some publications).

In an effort to put together a fully-functioning CARS fitting program, I thought it would perhaps benefit other CARS practitioners (especially the newcomers) if I open source my implementations. I hope to also benefit from this transparency and openness to public scrutiny. Although the “draft” code (not available in this public repo) already lives up to my original purpose (least-square fit of experimental broadband CARS spectra), it is most likely not error-free and has a lot of room left for improvement. Therefore, I plan to rewrite the important modules (spectrum synthesis and least-square fit) and slowly bring all features (see below) up to date. I am also looking forward to feedbacks and potential collaborators from the community.

Note

Nitrogen is currently the only species implemented/tested in carspy. Other common species will be added in the future (or can be readily introduced via customization).

Features

• CARSpy (stands for Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy):

• The CARS model:

Note

• The default chemical equilibrium solver based on cantera can be replaced by custom functions.

• Voigt profile is implemented via numerical convolution of a Gaussian profile with the Raman lines.

• Extended exponential gap model is not yet implemented.

Highlights

• Option to incorporate equilibrium composition using an external chemical equilibrium calculator (such as cantera), such that temperature is the only fitting parameter for thermometry

• Vibrational and rotational nonequilibrium: vibrational temperature can be varied independently from rotational temperature

Comparisons with CARSFT

Figure 1 Synthesized CARS spectra in N2 at 1 atm, 2400 K, with a pump linewidth of 0.5 cm-1, using Voigt lineshape and cross-coherence convolution.

Figure 2 Synthesized CARS spectra in N2 at 10 atm, 2400 K, with a pump linewidth of 0.5 cm-1, using modified exponential gap law (MEG) and cross-coherence convolution.

Caution!

There seems to exist a number of compiled versions of CARSFT that have likely been modified (in a hardcoded way) to suit specific purposes (e.g., artificially inflated nonresonant background and/or Raman linewidth).

The version used for the comparisons here was likely optimized for dual-pump CARS, such that several important settings (isolated line, single/double convolution, MEG, etc) don’t behave consistently. Small tweaks during the configuration setup (e.g., modifiers) were necessary to create theoretically correct spectra in CARSFT.

Roadmap

The above features currently present in the draft code will be gradually improved and included in the main branch. Here is a tentative plan:

• (Implemented) Module for synthesizing CARS spectra (optional with cantera)

• (Short-term) Module for least-square fit (with lmfit)

• (Mid-term) Multiprocessing

• (Mid-term) Docs

• (Mid-term) Tutorials

• (Long-term) Other common diatomic species

• (Long-term) Dualpump/Wide CARS

Citation

Please consider citing this repository if you use carspy for your publications as:

@misc{Yin2021,
  author = {Yin, Zhiyao},
  title = {CARSpy: Synthesizing and fitting coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectra in Python},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/chuckedfromspace/carspy}}
}

History

0.2.1 (2021-02-14)

• Change Sphinx theme

• Add existing modules to docs

• Fix format errors in docstrings

0.2.0 (2021-02-13)

• Implement modules for synthesizing N2 CARS spectra.

0.1.0 (2021-02-13)

• First release on PyPI.