Scattering, Absorption, and Emission of Light by Small ParticlesThis thorough and up-to-date treatment first introduces the general formalism of scattering, absorption, and emission of light and other electromagnetic radiation by arbitrarily shaped and arbitrarily oriented particles. It then discusses the relation of the radiative transfer theory to single-scattering solutions of Maxwell's equations and describes in detail exact theoretical methods and computer codes for calculating scattering, absorption, and emission properties of arbitrarily shaped particles. Further chapters demonstrate how scattering and absorption characteristics of small particles depend on particle size, refractive index, shape, and orientation. The work illustrates how the high efficiency and accuracy of existing theoretical and experimental techniques, and the availability of fast scientific workstations, result in advanced physically-based applications of electromagnetic scattering to non-invasive particle characterization and remote sensing. This book will be valuable for science professionals, engineers and graduate students in a wide range of disciplines including optics, electromagnetics, remote sensing, climate research, and biomedicine. |
Contents
Polarization characteristics of electromagnetic radiation | 8 |
Scattering absorption and emission of electromagnetic radiation by | 31 |
Scattering absorption and emission by collections of independent | 68 |
Scattering matrix and macroscopically isotropic and mirrorsymmetric | 83 |
Tmatrix method and LorenzMie theory | 115 |
Miscellaneous exact techniques | 191 |
Approximations | 206 |
6 | 222 |
Scattering and absorption properties of nonspherical particles | 279 |
7 | 322 |
9 | 337 |
11 | 350 |
Scalar and vector spherical wave functions | 370 |
Appendix E Système International units | 384 |
References | 395 |
439 | |
Measurement techniques | 224 |
Scattering and absorption properties of spherical particles | 238 |
Common terms and phrases
120 Scattering Angle 20 SIZE PARAMETER 90 120 Scattering albedo amplitude matrix angular aspect ratios asymmetry parameter average axis backscattering beam bisphere cluster components computations coordinate system curves cylinders diffraction direction distribution EBCM effective size parameter electric field electromagnetic scattering equation Euler angles expansion coefficients extinction cross section Figure gamma distribution geometrical optics Hovenier incident light laboratory reference frame lidar light scattering linear polarization m₁ measurements Mishchenko mnm'n monodisperse nonspherical particles numerical oblate spheroids panel PARAMETER 30 phase function phase matrix plane Plate polydisperse radiation radius randomly oriented Rayleigh Rayleigh scattering rays reference frame relative refractive index resonance rotation scattered field scattering and absorption Scattering Angle deg scattering cross section scattering matrix single-scattering albedo spheres spherical particles Stokes parameters Stokes scattering matrix Stokes vector surface-equivalent symmetry T-matrix technique values Veff versus wavelength Xeff Σ Σ