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Observation and Analysis of Blinking Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering
Published on: January 11, 2018
Rainbows, water droplets, and seeing--slow motion analysis of experiments in atmospheric optics
Michael Vollmer1, Klaus-Peter Möllmann
1Microsystem and Optical Technologies, Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Brandenburg, Germany. vollmer@fh-brandenburg.de
Abstract:
Many physics processes underlying phenomena in atmospheric optics happen on a rather short time scale such that neither the human eye nor video cameras are able to analyze the details. We report applications of high-speed imaging of laboratory experiments in atmospheric optics with subsequent slow motion analysis. The potential to study respective transient effects is investigated in general and for a few phenomena in detail, in particular for rainbow scattering due to single oscillating droplets during free fall, and for light propagation effects through atmospheric paths with turbulences, leading, e.g., to scintillation of stars or shimmering of mirage images.
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