Experimental laser attenuation in a snow environment
Abstract
Laser transmission through a snowfield has been measured in a laboratory experiment. Simultaneous measurements of the attenuation of a 0.6328 and a 10.6 micrometer wavelength laser beam by a common snowfield are reported. The results are favorably compared with a prediction of an analytic model which treats the snowflakes as spheres. The analytic model is then restructured and applied to predict the attenuation which would be obtained in a natural snowfield.
- Publication:
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Final Report
- Pub Date:
- March 1978
- Bibcode:
- 1978aro..reptQ....M
- Keywords:
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- Analysis (Mathematics);
- Laser Outputs;
- Snow;
- Lasers;
- Light Transmission;
- Near Infrared Radiation;
- Lasers and Masers