Finite-difference time-domain solution of light scattering by an infinite dielectric column immersed in an absorbing medium

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1977-1983

  Sun, Wenbo ^a,b   Loeb, Norman G ^a   Tanev, Stoyan ^c   Videen, Gorden ^d  

^a HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Vitesse Re Skilling Canada   (Canada)

^d U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SOURCES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PERMITTIVITY; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TURBIDITY;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD); OPTICAL COMPONENTS; TIME-DOMAIN SOLUTION; TRANSVERSE-ELECTRIC (TE) COMPONENTS;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; COLLOID; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG MIXTURE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EVALUATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; COLLOIDS; COMPLEX MIXTURES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 16644371465     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.001977     Document Type: Conference Paper

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