Kaebe, Benjamin DRobins, NicholasBoyson, Toby K.Kleine, H.O’Byrne, Sean2019-08-300003-6935http://hdl.handle.net/1885/165440This paper presents 1.6 MHz scan rate, non-intrusive, time-resolved temperature measurements of a normal shock reflection from a plane end wall within a shock tube. A vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) was used to conduct tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy with water vapor as the probe species. The results are compared with analytical predictions. Temperatures measured with this technique agree within a single-scan standard deviation of ±33  K with calculated temperatures at a VCSEL modulation frequency of 800 kHz, which is sufficiently rapid enough to be used to investigate highly transient shock wave interaction processes.This research was supported by the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarshipapplication/pdfen-AU© 2018 Optical Society of America201810.1364/AO.57.0056802019-04-14