Rayleigh-Gans scattering approximation: Surprisingly useful for understanding backscattering from disk-like particles

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 5572-5588

  Gordon, Howard R ^a  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BIREFRINGENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BACKSCATTERING FEATURES; COCCOLITHS; RAYLEIGH-GANS APPROXIMATION (RGA);

APPROXIMATION THEORY;

EID: 34247866587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.005572     Document Type: Article

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