Parallax effects in laser Doppler spectroscopy

Parallax effects in laser Doppler spectroscopy, associated with the variation of the scattering angle during motion of a particle through the probed volume, were investigated by a numerical simulation method based on the Mie scattering theory. It was found that, in general, the shifts of the spectral profile parameters (the average frequency, broadening, asymmetry, and kurtosis) become significant as the parallax number N_ψα=(2/π)ψα (ψ is the angular size of the probed volume, α = πd/λ is the relative particle diameter) increases. The anomalous ranges of the parameters of the particle and of the optical system, in which marked distortions (such as the polymodal nature and the splitting of the spectral profile) are observed even for a low parallax number (N_ψα ≪ 1), were discovered.