High pressure and high temperature Brillouin scattering measurements of pyrope single crystals using flexible CO₂ laser heating systems

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Kurnosov, Alexander ; Criniti, Giacomo ; Boffa Ballaran, Tiziana ; Marquardt, Hauke ; Frost, Daniel J.:
High pressure and high temperature Brillouin scattering measurements of pyrope single crystals using flexible CO₂ laser heating systems.
In: Physics and Chemistry of Minerals. Bd. 51 (2024) Heft 4 . - 38.
ISSN 1432-2021
DOI der Verlagsversion: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00269-024-01297-2

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Abstract

Single-crystal Brillouin scattering measurements are important for interpreting seismic velocities within the Earth and other planetary interiors. These measurements are rare, however, at temperatures above 1000 K, due to the fact that the transparent samples cannot be heated by common laser heating systems operating at a wavelength on the order of 1 μm. Here we present Brillouin scattering data on pyrope collected at pressures up to 23.8 GPa and temperatures between 850 and 1900 K using a novel CO₂ laser heating system confined in either a flexible hollow silica waveguide or an articulated arm with mirrors mounted in each junction to direct the laser to the exit point. Pyrope has been chosen because it has been extensively studied at high pressures and moderate temperatures and therefore it is an excellent sample for bench-marking the CO₂ laser heating system. The new high-temperature velocity data collected in this study allow the room pressure thermal parameters of pyrope to be constrained more tightly, resulting in values that reproduce the temperature dependence of the unit-cell volume of pyrope measured in recent studies at ambient pressure. Aggregate wave velocities of pyrope calculated along an adiabat using the thermoelastic parameters determined in this study are larger than those obtained using published values, implying that velocities for many mantle components may be underestimated at mantle temperatures because high temperature experimental data are lacking.