Published February 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

White-light filaments for multiparameter analysis of cloud microphysics

  • 1. Teramobile, Laboratoire de Spectrometrie Ionique et Moleculaire, Unite Mixte de Recherche (UMR 5579) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 43 Boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cedex (France)
  • 2. Teramobile, Institut fuer Experimentalphysik Freie Universitaet Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin (Germany)
  • 3. Teramobile, Institut fuer Optik und Quantenelektronik, Friedrich Schiller Universitaet Jena, Max Wien Platz 1, D-07743 Jena (Germany)
  • 4. Thueringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, Karl Schwarzchild Observatorium, Sternwarte 5, D-07778 Tautenburg (Germany)
  • 5. Teramobile, Institut fur Experimentalphysik Freie Universitat Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin (Germany)

Description

We present a lidar technique using femtosecond-terawatt laser pulses to perform a multiparameter analysis of cloud microphysics. Particle size and density within the cloud are deduced from the multispectral multiple scattering pattern of an ultrashort laser pulse. Furthermore, the spectral analysis of the atmospheric transmission of the white-light continuum from the same laser source yields temperature and relative humidity

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Journal Title
Journal of the Optical Society of America. Part B, Optical Physics
Journal Volume
22
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 369-377
ISSN
0740-3224
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(c) 2005 Optical Society of America