White-light filaments for multiparameter analysis of cloud microphysics

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 369-377

  Bourayou, Riad ^a   Méjean, Guillaume ^b   Kasparian, Jérôme ^b   Rodriguez, Miguel ^c   Salmon, Estelle ^b   Yu, Jin ^b   Lehmann, Holger ^d   Stecklum, Bringfried ^d   Laux, Uwe ^d   Eislöffel, Jochen ^d   Scholz, Alexander ^d   Hatzes, Artie P ^d   Sauerbrey, Roland ^a   Wöste, Ludger ^c   Wolf, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Karl Schwarzchild Observatorium   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; DENSITY MEASUREMENT (OPTICAL); LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL RADAR; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSMISSION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; FEMTOSECOND TERAWATT LASER PULSES; MULTIPARAMETER ANALYSIS; WHITE LIGHT CONTINUUM; WHITE LIGHT FILAMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS;

EID: 20144384848     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.000369     Document Type: Article

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