Simulation of enhanced backscattering of light by numerically solving Maxwell's equations without heuristic approximations

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3666-3672

  Tseng, Snow H ^a   Kim, Young L ^a   Taflove, Allen ^a   Maitland, Duncan ^b   Backman, Vadim ^a   Walsh Jr , Joseph T ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; HEURISTIC METHODS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; SPECKLE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

FREQUENCY-AVERAGING TECHNIQUE; HEURISTIC APPROXIMATIONS; LIGHT BACKSCATTERING; PSEUDOSPECTRAL TIME-DOMAIN (PSTD) TECHNIQUE;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 21244476403     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.003666     Document Type: Article

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