Propagation Of Intensive Laser Radiation In Clouds

Propagation of Intensive Laser Radiation in Clouds Oleg A. Volkovitsky Yuri S. Sedunov Leonid P. Semenov Institute of Experimental Meteorology Obninsk, Kaluga Region, USSR Volume 138 PROGRESS IN ASTRONAUTICS AND AERONAUTICS A. Richard Seebass, Editor-in-Chief University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, Colorado Published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW, Washington, DC 20024-2518 Copyright © 1992 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. Printed in the United States of America. All rights reserved. Reproduction or translation of any part of this work beyond that permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law without the permission of the copyright owner is unlawful. The code following this statement indicates the copyright owner's consent that copies of articles in this volume may be made for personal or internal use, on condition that the copier pay the per-copy fee ($2.00) plus the per-page fee ($0.50) through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 21 Congress Street, Salem, MA 01970. This consent does not extend to other kinds of copying, for which permission requests should be addressed to the publisher. Users should employ the following code when reporting copying from this volume to the Copyright Clearance Center: 1-56347-020-9/92 $2.00+.50 Data and information appearing in this book are for informational purposes only. AIAA is not responsible for any injury or damage resulting from use or reliance, nor does AIAA warrant that use or reliance will be free from privately owned rights. ISSN 0079-6050 Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics Editor-in-Chief A. Richard Seebass University of Colorado at Boulder Editorial Board Richard G. Bradley General Dynamics John L. Junkins Texas A&M University John R. Casani California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory John E. Keigler General Electric Company Astro-Space Division Alien E. Fuhs Car meI, California Daniel P. Raymer Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Company George J. Gleghorn 77? W Space and Technology Group Joseph F. Shea Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dale B. Henderson Los Alamos National Laboratory Carolyn L. Huntoon NASA Johnson Space Center Reid R. June Boeing Military Airplane Company Martin Summerfield Princeton Combustion Research Laboratories, Inc. Charles E. Treanor Arvin/Calspan Advanced Technology Center Jeanne Godette Series Managing Editor AIAA This page intentionally left blank Annotation This book presents the results of theoretical and experimental investigations of cloud particles phase transformations under the effect of radiation field, variation in cloud transparency when irradiated by a laser, and laser beam distortions caused by induced optical heterogeneities. Possible ways of applying the method of laser irradiation of clouds are discussed. The book is intended for scientists and engineers interested in laser radiation propagation in the atmosphere. It may also be helpful to students and graduate students specializing in optics, laser physics, and quantum electronics. This page intentionally left blank Foreword to English edition In 1988, the authors got a kind offer from Dr. Charles Cason to assist in publishing the book Propagation of Intensive Laser Radiation in Clouds in English to make it available to English-speaking scientists. This offer interested the authors, since its realization would enable the general scientific community outside of the Soviet Union to become acquainted with the authors' approach to solution of an interesting problem of the nonlinear atmospheric optics. More than six years have already passed since the book was published in Russian. In this time the authors and