Accuracy of internal fields in volume integral equation simulations of light scattering

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 36, 1998, Pages 8482-8497

  Hoekstra, Alfons ^a   Rahola, Jussi ^b   Sloot, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b IT Center for Science   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

MIE THEORY; SCATTERED FIELDS; VOLUME INTEGRAL EQUATION SIMULATION;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 0032553814     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.008482     Document Type: Article

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