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Aerosol scattering of supercontinuum radiation formed upon femtosecond laser pulse filamentation in the atmosphere

✍ Scribed by Alexander A. Zemlyanov; Yuri E. Geints


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
373 KB
Volume
270
Category
Article
ISSN
0030-4018

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✦ Synopsis


We report numerical calculations of scattering and backscattering efficiency factors of water droplets illuminated by a quasi-white light radiation (a supercontinuum radiation) that results from self-focusing of a high-power femtosecond laser pulse in the atmosphere. The behavior of these integral optical characteristics for a wide range of droplet sizes that covers the size spectra of fog and cloud particles is analyzed. The results are compared to the values of the scattering factors obtained by the Lorentz-Mie theory.