Application of the symplectic finite-difference time-domain method to light scattering by small particles

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1650-1656

  Zhai, Peng Wang ^a   Kattawar, George W ^a   Yang, Ping ^a   Li, Changhui ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FUNCTIONS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PERMITTIVITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD); NEAR-FIELD CALCULATIONS; PHASE FUNCTIONS; SPHERICAL DIELECTRIC PARTICLES;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 15944394401     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.001650     Document Type: Article

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