This paper presents high speed Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) experiments on small-scale, steep, breaking waves forced by shoa領(lǐng) the waves up an angled slope to a level plateau, in a lidded tank with an initially quiescent air-side. Both spil領(lǐng) and plunging breakers are considered. A PIV system, using a high speed digital video camera at up to 500 frames per second, was used to obtain quantitative data on both the air and water side of the free surface interface. Waves are generated by a computer controlled, paddle-type wave maker at one end of long, narrow acrylic tank. In order to obtain breaking waves on a small scale, surface tension was lowered by mixing isopropyl alcohol with distilled water. Surface tension characteristics of the water-IPA mixture are also presented herein. To perform high speed PIV measurements, a low-cost, Lasiris Magnum, near-IR, TTL diode line generator laser is used to form the light sheet. To seed the water, traditional silver coated hollow-glass spheres were used. While seeding in the water was quite straight-forward, seeding in the air was quite complex. In order not to adversely affect the surface tension, a water-based fog was used to seed the air. Qualitative visualizations and PIV show the formation of the vortex aft of the breaking wave and reveal strong counterclockwise vorticity in the air side of the interface. Results for the plunging breaking wave case are presented herein and compared with numerical results from Hendrickson (2004). 德國LaVision PIV/PLIF粒子成像測速場儀 時間分辨粒子成像測速系統(tǒng)(TR-PIV) HighSpeedStar PIV相機