Light extinction and absorption by arbitrarily oriented finite circular cylinders by use of geometrical path statistics of rays

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 33, 2003, Pages 6710-6723

  Xu, Min ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALCULATIONS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DIFFRACTION; LIGHT EXTINCTION; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); RAY TRACING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ANOMALOUS DIFFRACTION THEORY; FINITE CIRCULAR CYLINDERS; GEOMETRICAL PATH STATISTICS; OPTICAL EFFICIENCIES;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

ARTICLE; LIGHT; OPTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS;

EID: 0642368517     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.006710     Document Type: Article

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