• Laser & Optoelectronics Progress
  • Vol. 51, Issue 12, 120101 (2014)
Wei Hailiang1、*, Shao Limin2, and Li Tianwei3
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    DOI: 10.3788/lop51.120101 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Wei Hailiang, Shao Limin, Li Tianwei. Fog Field Scattering Analysis with Drop Size Distribution[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2014, 51(12): 120101 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    There exist various of fog drop size distributions in advection fog and radiation fog, which result in the different attenuation performances as light propagates in fog field. Mie theory can describe the scattering and attenuation of aerosol particles in fog field, while light propagation follows the principle of dynamic particles conservation. In this paper, fog drop size distribution is applied to modify the scattering phase matrix of aerosol particles, and the scattered light′ s polarization can be solved when infrared light penetrates into aerosol particle clusters. The results show that aerosol particles′ depolarization mainly depends on fog drop size distribution, fog drop refractive index, absorption coefficient and incident wavelength. In the forward-scattering area, depolarization decreases as visibility increases, while the opposite trend occurs in most backwardscattering area.
    Wei Hailiang, Shao Limin, Li Tianwei. Fog Field Scattering Analysis with Drop Size Distribution[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2014, 51(12): 120101
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