Optical free-path-length distribution in a fractal aggregate and its effect on enhanced backscattering

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 5014-5018

  Ishii, Katsuhiro ^a   Iwai, Toshiaki ^a   Uozumi, Jun ^a   Asakura, Toshimitsu ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; FRACTALS; FUNCTIONS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

EFFECTIVE MEAN FREE PATH LENGTH; FRACTAL AGGREGATE; FRACTAL STRUCTURE; FREE PATH LENGTH DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; RADIUS OF GYRATION METHOD; RANDOMNESS ANALOGOUS;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 0032114606     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.005014     Document Type: Article

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