OPTIKA ATMOSFERY I OKEANA JOURNAL
V.E. ZUEV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS
Vol. 6, issue 11, article # 11
pdf Goryachev B. V., Kabanov M. V., Mogil'nitskii S. B., Savel'ev B. A. Calculation of a signal-to-noise ratio for a layered inhomogeneous medium. // Atmospheric and oceanic optics. 1993. V. 6. No. 11. P. 812-814.Copy the reference to clipboard
Abstract:
The behavior of a signal—to—noise (S/N) ratio is investigated depending on the optical dimensions of a medium and the quantum survival probabilities as well as the influence of the underlying surface and external sources is analyzed during radiation propagation through a multilayered medium. It has been shown that absorption by a medium affects the signal—to—noise ratio impoving it by a few orders of magnitude. The influence of the layered structure on the dependence of the S/N ratio upon the optical size of a scattering volume is also analyzed.