A time-resolved glimpse of the terahertz glory

Philip L. Marston ()
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Philip L. Marston: Washington State University

Nature, 1998, vol. 391, issue 6670, 841-842

Abstract: If you stand above a cloud, you will see bright coloured rings around your shadow. These ‘glory’ rings are most commonly seen around the shadow of an aeroplane. What causes this strong backscattering of light by droplets of water? It has been hard to isolate the glory rays from other scattered components — but this has now been done using ultra-short laser pulses and timing the arrival of components that take different paths thought the drop. This experiment confirms the idea that glory is caused by interference between surface waves on the water droplets.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/35984

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