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General formulas for the extinction coefficient of laser radiation in an atmosphere are derived. They take into account nonlinear effects and significantly differ from the linear optics results. Specific calculations are carried out for the atmosphere of Titan. It is shown that consideration of a close-to-real altitude dependence of the concentration of atmospheric gases leads to the altitude dependence of the extinction coefficient being significantly different from the results obtained using the barometric formula. The extinction coefficient in the atmosphere of Triton is also estimated.
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The calculations were performed with the use of the high-performance computer cluster of Voronezh State University.
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The work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Czech Science Foundation (project no. 19-52-26 006) in the part of calculation of the imaginary part of the dynamic polarizabilities (\(\bar {\Gamma }(F)\)) and the Russian Science Foundation (grant No. 19-12-00095) in the part of quantum-chemical calculations.
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Romashenko, O.P., Kornev, A.S. & Zon, B.A. Laser Radiation Absorption in the Atmosphere of Titan. Atmos Ocean Opt 33, 439–442 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1024856020050152
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