Polarization and effective Mueller matrix for multiple scattering of light by nonspherical ice crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 6381-6393

  Lawless, Ryan ^a   Xie, Yu ^a   Yang, Ping ^a   Kattawar, George W ^a   Laszlo, Istvan ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ICE; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLARIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ICE CRYSTALS; MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MUELLER MATRICES; MULTIPLE SCATTERING;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 33745831242     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.006381     Document Type: Article

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