Light scattering by a random distribution of particles embedded in absorbing media: Full-wave Monte Carlo solutions of the extinction coefficient

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2953-2962

  Durant, Stéphane ^a,c   Calvo Perez, Olivier ^b   Vukadinovic, Nicolas ^b   Greffet, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Direction General Technique   (France)

^c KLA TENCOR CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CORRELATION METHODS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORY; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; INDEPENDENT-SCATTERING APPROXIMATION; RANDOM DISTRIBUTION;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 36448985309     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.24.002953     Document Type: Article

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