Sensitivity of the backscattering Mueller matrix to particle shape and thermodynamic phase

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 4389-4395

  Yang, Ping ^a   Wei, Heli ^a   Kattawar, George W ^a   Hu, Yong X ^b   Winker, David M ^b   Hostetler, Chris A ^b   Baum, Bryan A ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CRYSTALS; ICE; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

PHASE MATRIX;

BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 0041731805     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.004389     Document Type: Article

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