Coherent and incoherent additions of light beams at solutions of the light scattering problem by use the beam tracing method within the framework of physical optics

Alexander V. Konoshonkin; Natalia V. Kustova; Anatoli G. Borovoi; Hajime Okamoto

doi:10.1117/12.2204879

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19 November 2015 Coherent and incoherent additions of light beams at solutions of the light scattering problem by use the beam tracing method within the framework of physical optics

Alexander V. Konoshonkin, Natalia V. Kustova, Anatoli G. Borovoi, Hajime Okamoto

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Proceedings Volume 9680, 21st International Symposium Atmospheric and Ocean Optics: Atmospheric Physics; 96802X (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2204879
Event: XXI International Symposium Atmospheric and Ocean Optics. Atmospheric Physics, 2015, Tomsk, Russian Federation

Abstract

Interference effects between the scattered beams in the problem of light scattering by atmospheric ice crystals have been studied. Since the crystals are much larger than the wavelength, it is shown that the interference effects can be neglected if the crystal sizes are statistically varied more than 5% of the mean size. As a result, any calculations of the optical properties of the crystals performing an averaging over crystal sizes can be effectively replaced by the procedure of the incoherent addition of the scattered beams. This procedure allows us decrease the execution time up to 100 times.

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Alexander V. Konoshonkin, Natalia V. Kustova, Anatoli G. Borovoi, and Hajime Okamoto "Coherent and incoherent additions of light beams at solutions of the light scattering problem by use the beam tracing method within the framework of physical optics", Proc. SPIE 9680, 21st International Symposium Atmospheric and Ocean Optics: Atmospheric Physics, 96802X (19 November 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2204879

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