Calculation of electromagnetic scattering by a large chiral sphere

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 6661-6668

  Wu, Zhen Sen ^a   Shang, Qing Chao ^a   Li, Zheng Jun ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADAR CROSS SECTION; RADAR THEORY;

ARBITRARILY SHAPED BEAMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; ISOTROPIC SPHERES; LOGARITHMIC DERIVATIVES; POLARIZED PLANE WAVES; SCATTERED FIELD; SCATTERING CO-EFFICIENT; SIMPLIFIED EXPRESSIONS;

SPHERES;

MICROSPHERE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADAR; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84866653244     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.006661     Document Type: Article

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