Dependence of extinction cross-section on incident polarization state and particle orientation Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • This note reports on the effects of the polarization state of an incident quasi-monochromatic parallel beam of radiation and the orientation of a hexagonal ice particle with respect to the incident direction on the extinction process. When the incident beam is aligned with the six-fold rotational symmetry axis, the extinction is independent of the polarization state of the incident light. For other orientations, the extinction cross-section for linearly polarized light can be either larger or smaller than its counterpart for an unpolarized incident beam. Therefore, the attenuation of a quasi-monochromatic radiation beam by an ice cloud depends on the polarization state of the beam if ice crystals within the cloud are not randomly oriented. Furthermore, a case study of the extinction of light by a quartz particle is also presented to illustrate the dependence of the extinction cross-section on the polarization state of the incident light. 2011 Elsevier Ltd.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE SPECTROSCOPY & RADIATIVE TRANSFER

author list (cited authors)

  • Yang, P., Wendisch, M., Bi, L., Kattawar, G., Mishchenko, M., & Hu, Y.

citation count

  • 17

complete list of authors

  • Yang, Ping||Wendisch, Manfred||Bi, Lei||Kattawar, George||Mishchenko, Michael||Hu, Yongxiang

publication date

  • August 2011