Transient scattering from three-dimensional arbitrarily shaped dielectric bodies

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 1458-1470

  Vechinski, D A ^a   Rao, S M ^a   Sarkar, T K ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIGHT SCATTERING; NUMERICAL METHODS;

DIELECTRIC BODIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSES; SURFACE INTEGRAL EQUATION; TRANSIENT SCATTERING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0028409825     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.11.001458     Document Type: Article

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