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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1990),
  • paper CFM2

Laser-induced droplet shattering in the cloud hole-boring process

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Abstract

Long pulse chemical lasers using DF to CO2 V-V energy transfer have been developed to produce high energy pulses at 10.6 μm for the purpose of clearing holes through stratus and cirrus clouds. Radiation at 10.6 μm is strongly absorbed by liquid water and very weakly absorbed by water vapor. This characteristic makes these lasers very attractive for efficiently clearing relatively thin clouds and fog.

© 1990 Optical Society of America

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