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Technique for Measuring Visibility

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Abstract

A technique for measuring atmospheric extinction of light, or visibility, from the backscattered signal of a modulated cw laser is presented. The extinction coefficient is contained in the amplitude and phase of the return signal and can be extracted in several ways from certain amplitude and/or phase measurements. No assumption about a relationship between the extinction coefficient and backscattering coefficient need be made.

© 1971 Optical Society of America

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