Improved t-matrix computations for large, nonabsorbing and weakly absorbing nonspherical particles and comparison with geometrical-optics approximation

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 4305-4313

  Wielaard, Dingeman J ^a,b   Mishchenko, Michael I ^a,c   Macke, Andreas ^a,b   Carlson, Barbara E ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geometrical optics approximation; Light scattering; Nonspherical particles; T matrix method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000114034     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.004305     Document Type: Article

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