Comparison between the pseudo-spectral time domain method and the discrete dipole approximation for light scattering simulations

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 16763-16776

  Liu, Chao ^a   Bi, Lei ^a   Panetta, R Lee ^a   Yang, Ping ^a   Yurkin, Maxim A ^b,c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL KINETICS AND COMBUSTION   (Russian Federation)

^c NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SCATTERING; NUMERICAL METHODS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ASYMMETRY FACTOR; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; CRITICAL SIZE; DIELECTRIC PARTICLES; DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; EXACT SOLUTION; EXTINCTION EFFICIENCY; HOMOGENEOUS DIELECTRICS; LIGHT SCATTERING SIMULATIONS; LINEAR POLARIZATION; LORENZ-MIE THEORY; PHASE FUNCTIONS; PSEUDO-SPECTRAL TIME-DOMAIN METHOD; ROBUST METHODS; SCATTERING PARTICLES; SINGLE SCATTERING; SIZE PARAMETERS; T-MATRIX THEORY; TIME DOMAIN;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864118758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.016763     Document Type: Article

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