Optical caustics observed in light scattered by an oblate spheroid

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1288-1304

  Lock, James A ^a   Xu, Feng ^b  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHT;

DEBYE-SERIES EXPANSION; GLOBAL STRUCTURE; INTERFERENCE STRUCTURES; INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; LIGHT SCATTERED; OBLATE SPHEROID; SCATTERED INTENSITY; SCATTERING ANGLES;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS;

EID: 77949851501     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.001288     Document Type: Article

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