Scattering of light by a single layer of randomly packed dielectric microspheres giving color effects in transmission

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1440-1447

  Guillaumée, Mickaël ^a   Liley, Martha ^a   Pugin, Raphaël ^a   Stanley, Ross P ^a  

^a CSEM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; MICROSPHERES; OPTICAL FILMS; POLYSTYRENES;

COLOR EFFECTS; DIELECTRIC MICROSPHERES; IN PLANE MULTIPLE SCATTERING;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

MICROSPHERE;

ARTICLE; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMPEDANCE; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COLOR; COLORIMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 39049139198     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.001440     Document Type: Article

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