Conditions of applicability of the single-scattering approximation

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 7522-7527

  Mishchenko, Michael I ^a   Liu, Li ^a   Videen, Gorden ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DENSITY (OPTICAL); MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); WAVELENGTH;

INTER PARTICLE DISTANCE; PACKING DENSITY; SINGLE SCATTERING APPROXIMATION (SSA); SPHERICAL PARTICLES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 34250184498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.007522     Document Type: Article

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