Amplification of high-order rainbows of a cylinder with an elliptical cross section

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1527-1533

  Lock, James A ^a   Adler, Charles L ^b   Stone, Bradley R ^c   Zajak, Patrick D ^a  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c University of Dayton   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RAINBOW;

EID: 0032549854     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.001527     Document Type: Article

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