Huge light scattering from active anisotropic spherical particles

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 24868-24880

  Fan, Xiaofeng ^a   Shen, Zexiang ^a   Luk'yanchuk, Boris ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PERMITTIVITY; PLASMONS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; REFRACTION;

ACTIVE MEDIUM; ANISOTROPIC PERMITTIVITY; ANISOTROPY EFFECT; MIE THEORY; PLASMON-POLARITONS; SCATTERING CROSS SECTION; SCATTERING EFFICIENCY; SMALL PARTICLES; SPHERICAL PARTICLE; VECTOR POTENTIAL;

SCATTERING;

EID: 78649695939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.024868     Document Type: Article

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