Light Scattering Intensity Fluctuations in Microdroplets Containing Inclusions.

Abstract

A prominent characteristic of light scattered from a microparticle containing inclusions is fluctuating intensity due to changing positions of the inclusions with respect to each other and the host droplet. We calculate the magnitude of these fluctuations for a host sphere containing a single nonconcentric spherical inclusion and experimentally measure the fluctuation amplitudes for host spheres containing multiple inclusions. We find that for relatively small single inclusions, the amplitude of the scattering fluctuations increases approximately linearly with the area of the inclusion. For multiple inclusions, the fluctuation amplitude increases with concentration, with an approximate power-law dependence.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA327849

Entities

People

  • Dat Ngo
  • Gorden W. Videen
  • John S. Videen
  • Paul Pellegrino
  • Ronald G. Pinnick

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplitude
  • Argon Lasers
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Backscattering
  • Detectors
  • Electromagnetic Scattering
  • Glycerols
  • Inclusions
  • Information Science
  • Intensity
  • Laser Beams
  • Light Scattering
  • Military Research
  • Refractive Index
  • Scattering
  • Standards
  • Sugar Alcohols

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerosol Science/Aerosol Physics
  • Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics of Materials.
  • Spectroscopy.