Generalization of the rainbow Airy theory to nonuniform spheres

Optics Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 658-660

  Vetrano, Maria Rosaria ^a   Van Beeck, Jeronimus Petrus Antonius Johannes ^a   Riethmuller, Michel Léon ^a  

^a VON KARMAN INSTITUTE FOR FLUID DYNAMICS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRY THEORY; DROPLETS; FRESNEL PRINCIPLE; RAINBOW;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DROP FORMATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRAJECTORIES; WAVEFRONTS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 15544388795     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.30.000658     Document Type: Article

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