Spontaneous Rayleigh-Brillouin scattering of ultraviolet light in nitrogen, dry air, and moist air

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 4217-4227

  Witschas, Benjamin ^a   Vieitez, Maria O ^b   Van Duijn, Eric Jan ^b   Reitebuch, Oliver ^a   Van De Water, Willem ^c   Ubachs, Wim ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL RADAR;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC LIDARS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF AEROSOLS; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; RAYLEIGH-BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; SCATTERED LASER LIGHT; SPECTRAL LINE SHAPE; ULTRA-VIOLET LIGHT;

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

EID: 77955862754     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.004217     Document Type: Article

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