Linear polarization components of laser radiation scattered 90 deg
Abstract
A comparison is made of the intensity distribution of the horizontally and vertically polarized radiation side-scattered from small spherical particles in a cylindrical scattering volume. The incident radiation is a nearly collimated linearly polarized He-Ne laser beam. The scattering medium consists of various concentrations of particles which are either 0.22 or 0.494 microns in diameter and which were suspended in filtered, distilled water. In general, the effect of the diameter of the particle on depolarizing the incident beam is more important than are particle concentration, detector depth, and so on.
- Publication:
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AIAA, 28th Thermophysics Conference
- Pub Date:
- July 1993
- Bibcode:
- 1993thph.confQ....L
- Keywords:
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- Helium-Neon Lasers;
- Laser Outputs;
- Light Scattering;
- Linear Polarization;
- Horizontal Orientation;
- Laser Beams;
- Thermal Radiation;
- Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics