Scattering cancellation of the magnetic dipole field from macroscopic spheres

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 13896-13906

  Farhat, M ^a   Muhlig S ^a   Rockstuhl, C ^a   Lederer, F ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

CANCELLATION TECHNIQUES; MACROSCOPIC OBJECTS; MAGNETIC DIPOLE; MAGNETIC DIPOLE FIELDS; SCATTERING RESPONSE; SYSTEMATIC INVESTIGATIONS;

SPHERES;

MICROSPHERE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MAGNETIC FIELD; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84863736370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.013896     Document Type: Article

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