Scattering and internal fields of a microsphere that contains a saturable absorber: Finite-difference time-domain simulations

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 30, 2001, Pages 5487-5494

  Hill, Steven C ^a   Videen, Gorden ^a   Sun, Wenbo ^a,b   Fu, Qiang ^a,c  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLUORESCENCE; ITERATIVE METHODS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MICROSPHERE;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 0037625165     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.005487     Document Type: Article

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