Numerical study of particle-size distributions retrieved from angular light-scattering data using an evolution strategy with the Fraunhofer approximation

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 3602-3610

  Vargas Ubera, Javier ^a   Sánchez Escobar, Juan Jaime ^b   Felix Aguilar J ^a   Gale, David Michel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b Centro de Ensenanza Tecnica Industrial Mexico   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LIGHT SCATTERING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CHIN-SHIFRIN INVERSION METHOD; FRAUNHOFER APPROXIMATION; MIE THEORY;

PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547523649     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.003602     Document Type: Article

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