Forward multiple scattering corrections as a function of detector field of view
Abstract
The present investigation has the objective to study the effect of a finite field of view on the intensity and the received power of a laser beam undergoing multiple scattering. The employed analytic approach is based on the theory considered by Dolin (1966) and Fante (1973, 1980). This theory is applied to Gaussian beams. Attention is given to the case of a collimated Gaussian beam, the case of a general Gaussian beam, and numerical results relevant to the beam propagation in a water cloud and model aerosol particles. The Fante-Dolin approximation employed in the investigation makes it possible to estimate the corrections to the Bouguer-Beer law for a receiver having a finite field of view.
- Publication:
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Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- October 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1364/AO.22.002970
- Bibcode:
- 1983ApOpt..22.2970Z
- Keywords:
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- Aerosols;
- Atmospheric Optics;
- Atmospheric Scattering;
- Field Of View;
- Forward Scattering;
- Optical Correction Procedure;
- Coherent Light;
- Laser Outputs;
- Light Beams;
- Light Scattering;
- Low Visibility;
- Radiation Detectors;
- Radiative Transfer;
- Lasers and Masers;
- SCATTERING;
- CLOUDS;
- AEROSOLS;
- ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS;
- LASERS;
- RADIATIVE TRANSFER