Light scattering by arbitrarily oriented rotationally symmetric particles

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1583-1591

  Skaropoulos, Nikolaos C ^a   Russchenberg, Herman W J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ARBITRARY ORIENTATIONS;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 0038632993     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.19.001583     Document Type: Article

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