Light scattering by coated sphere immersed in absorbing medium: a comparison between the FDTD and analytic solutions

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 83, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 483-492

  Sun, Wenbo ^a   G Loeb, Norman ^a   Fu, Qiang ^b  

^a HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorbing medium; Coated sphere; Light scattering

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; SPHERES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EXTINCTION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ABSORBING MEDIUM; ABSORPTION EFFICIENCY; ANALYTIC SOLUTION; EXACT ANALYTIC SOLUTIONS; SCATTERING PHASE FUNCTION; SINGLE SCATTERING PROPERTIES;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

COATED SPHERE;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 0344120258     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-4073(03)00101-8     Document Type: Article

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