Water mist attenuates guided laser based on Monte Carlo method

The round-trip attenuating process of lasers used for guiding in artificial water mists is studied with the Monte-Carlo method. A new way for confirming the scattering directions of photons is established based on calculating Mie cumulative probability distribution function of the polydisperse mist and user defined function fitting by Matlab. Two Monte-Carlo methods for photons tracking are mentioned and their efficiencies are discussed and balanced in this paper. A conclusion is come to that the Wight method is evidently more efficiency than the Event method, and the former is adopted in this paper. The radiuses of frequently-used water mists are usually in the range of 101–102 μm which are found to be suited to attenuate the 10.6 μm laser and can be used for laser stealth. But the effect is worse for 1.06 μm laser.