Generalized tertiary rainbow of slightly oblate drops: Observations with laser illumination

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1520-1526

  Langley, Dean S ^a   Marston, Philip L ^b  

^a St John's University   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RAINBOW;

EID: 0032549851     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.001520     Document Type: Article

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