Multiwavelength backscatter measurement of clouds and aerosols using a white light lidar system

In this paper, application of white light lidar system for the multiwavelength backscatter measurements of clouds and aerosols will be presented. The white light continuum was generated by a focused 0.8 TW/100 fs laser pulse in a 9-m long gas cell filled with atmospheric krypton rare gas, which generated a broad spectrum of the white light. We observed the temporal evolution of the backscattered coefficient and analyzed the particle size distribution.