A technique to measure optical properties of brownout clouds for modeling terahertz propagation

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 3605-3613

  Fiorino, Steven T ^a   Deibel, Jason A ^b,c   Grice, Phillip M ^a   Novak, Markus H ^a   Spinoza, Julian ^a   Owens, Lindsay ^b   Ganti, Satya ^c  

^a Air Force Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Wright State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; DUST; MILITARY HELICOPTERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TERAHERTZ WAVES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VISIBILITY;

ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; COMPLEX REFRACTIVE INDEX; DUST AEROSOLS; EMPIRICAL CALCULATIONS; SPECTRAL MEASUREMENT; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TIME DOMAIN;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 84861831988     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.003605     Document Type: Article

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