Scattering of a hermite - Gaussian beam field by a chiral sphere

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

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1681-1689

  Yokota, Mitsuhiro ^a   He, Sailing ^b,c   Takenaka, Takashi ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; VECTORS;

HERMITE-GAUSSIAN BEAM;

SCATTERING;

EID: 0038794902     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.18.001681     Document Type: Article

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