Experimental and theoretical results of light scattering by aggregates of spheres

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 30, 1997, Pages 8026-8030

  Xu, Yulin ^a   Gustafson, Bo Å S ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregates of spheres; Multiparticle light scattering; Particles; Vector addition theorems; Vector translation coefficients

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE; OPTICAL PROPERTY; SCATTERING; SPHERE;

EID: 0008457245     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.008026     Document Type: Article

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