Formation of the scattering phase function in the interaction of ultrashort laser pulses with a drop and aerosol in a nonlinear mode

Abstract

The propagation of ultrashort laser pulses in the atmosphere is accompanied by nonlinear effects. The most low-threshold of them is the effect of cubic nonlinearity along with nonlinear absorption manifesting in aerosol. This effect should lead to the transformation of the scattering phase function formed in a liquid droplet aerosol. To study this effect, numerical and experimental studies on droplets of various sizes and geometries were carried out. As expected, the cubic nonlinearity inclusion should lead to an increase in the effect of backward scattering.