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How to measure the doppler effect perpendicular to the movement in laser doppler anemometry

Physics Asked on December 29, 2020

I’m trying to grasp the principle of Laser Doppler Anemometry. I like it as it is quite genius I’d say. However, what struggles me is the circumstance that the Doppler effect perpendicular to the movement direction shouldn’t take place, or?

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Maybe there are different principles because this one here is living under the same term but it looks differently:

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Rückwärtsstreuung means back scattering
Vorwärtsstreuung means forward scattering
Seitwärtsstreuung means side scattering

Here I can realize the meaning of the Doppler effect as you measure the back scattered frequency (and also forward scattered, whyever). But nevertheless, it is perpendicular and shouldn’t exist, or?

edit: Here it is nicely visualized. What I wonder now, is, how the scattering/interference works. From my pov scattering should be totally arbitrary but yet, there is quite a structure given and the "gap distances" represent the frequency. I mean I can apply and calculate it.. but I don’t get it.
Why is that interference so specific and why does the signal, generated by the scattering from the particle, look so unambiguous?

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