The invention provides a device and method for measuring wake
electron density of a terahertz wave arc wind tunnel test model, and the device comprises an arc wind tunnel
system, a terahertz transmitting module, a
beam shaping module, a detection module, and a
data processing and inversion module. The
beam shaping module converts
terahertz pulse signals into zero-order Bessel beams, and the detection module filters
noise through
confocal filtering. According to the method, a wake region
plasma flow field is generated through an arc wind tunnel, and after wave beam conversion and filtering receiving, the
data processing and inversion module inverts the
electron density through the steps of phase dispersion
model fitting, Abel inverse transformation and the like. Non-contact measurement is adopted,
ablation particle interference is avoided, sub-
millisecond magnitude spatial resolution measurement is achieved, measurement accuracy and reliability are improved, and reliable data support is provided for aircraft
plasma sheath characteristic evaluation.