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Interactions of Light with Small Particles
Interactions of Light with Small Particles
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Author(s): Bohren, Craig F.
ISBN No.: 9783527406647
Pages: 976
Year: 202601
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 327.23
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Chapter 1. Introduction 1.1 What is a Small Particle? 1.2 Scattering, Emission, and Absorption as Observable Phenomena 1.3 Detecting and Imaging 1.4 Elastic, Quasielastic, and Inelastic Scattering 1.5 Scattering, Emission, and Absorption: Theoretical Interpretation 1.6 Physics of Scattering by a Single Particle 1.


7 Direct and Inverse Problems Chapter 2. Electromagnetic Theory 2.1 Field Vectors and the Maxwell Equations 2.2 Time-Harmonic Fields 2.3 Frequency-Dependent Constitutive Parameters 2.4 Poynting Vector 2.5 Plane Waves in Unbounded Media 2.6 Plane Waves in Bounded Media 2.


7 Reflection and Transmission by a Slab 2.8 Scattering Interpretation of Reflection and Transmission 2.9 Measurement of Optical Constants 2.10 Polarization 2.11 Slab and Particle: Similarities and Differences Chapter 3. Absorption and Scattering by an Arbitrary Particle 3.1 General Formulation of the Problem 3.2 Amplitude Scattering Matrix 3.


3 Scattering Matrix 3.4 Extinction, Scattering, and Absorption Chapter 4. Absorption, Scattering, and Emission by a Sphere 4.1 Solutions to the Vector Helmholtz Equation 4.2 Expansion of a Plane Wave in Spherical Vector Wave Functions 4.3 Internal and Scattered Fields 4.4 Cross Sections and Matrix Elements 4.5 Asymmetry Parameter, Radiation Force, and Torque 4.


6 Radar Backscattering Cross Section 4.7 Thermal Emission 4.8 Sphere on or Above a Substrate Chapter 5. Particles Small Compared with the Wavelength 5.1 Sphere Small Compared with the Wavelength 5.2 Electrostatic (Quasistatic) Approximation 5.3 Ellipsoid in the Electrostatic Approximation 5.4 Coated Ellipsoid 5.


5 Polarizability Tensor 5.6 Anisotropic Sphere 5.7 Scattering Matrix 5.8 Rayleigh, Smoluchowski, Einstein, Fluctuation Theory of Scattering Chapter 6. Rayleigh-Gans Approximation 6.1 Amplitude Scattering Matrix 6.2 Homogeneous Sphere 6.3 Finite Cylinder Chapter 7.


Geometrical Optics 7.1 Absorption and Scattering Cross Sections of a Sphere 7.2 Rainbow Angles 7.3 Glory Scattering 7.4 Scattering by Prisms: Ice-Crystal Halos 7.5 Scattering by Axially-Illuminated Spheroids Chapter 8. A Potpourri of Particles 8.1 Uniformly Coated Sphere 8.


2 Isotropic Chiral Sphere 8.3 Infinite Right Circular Cylinder 8.4 Spheroids 8.5 Anisotropic Sphere 8.6 Particle in an Absorbing Medium 8.7 Fraunhofer Approximation: Nonspherical Particles 8.8 Randomly Sparse Clusters of Small Spheres 8.9 Clusters of Arbitrary Spheres and Other Regular Particles 8.


10 Heterogeneous Media and Particles: Effective-Medium Theories 8.11 A Survey of Numerical Methods for Irregular Particles OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF BULK MATTER Chapter 9. Classical Theories of Optical Constants 9.1 The Lorentz Model 9.2 The Multiple-Oscillator Model 9.3 The Anisotropic Oscillator Model 9.4 The Drude Model 9.5 The Debye Relaxation Model 9.


6 General Relationship Between e and ยต Chapter 10. Measured Optical Constants 10.1 Optical Properties of an Insulator: Magnesium Oxide 10.2 Optical Properties of a Metal: Aluminum 10.3 Optical Properties of a Non-Free-Electron Metal: Gold 10.4 Optical Properties of a Polar Liquid: Water 10.5 The Magnitude of k 10.6 Validity of Bulk Optical Constants in Small-Particle Calculations 10.


7 Summary of Absorption Mechanisms OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF PARTICLES Chapter 11. Extinction 11.1 Extinction = Absorption + Scattering 11.2 Extinction Survey 11.3 Some Extinction Effects in Nonmetallic Spheres 11.4 Ripple Structure 11.5 Christiansen Filter 11.6 Absorption Effects in Extinction 11.


7 Extinction by Nonspherical Particles 11.8 Extinction Measurements 11.9 Extinction: A Synopsis Chapter 12. Surface Modes in Small Particles 12.1 Surface Modes of Small Spheres 12.2 Surface Modes of Nonspherical Particles 12.3 Vibrational Modes in Insulators 12.4 Electronic Modes in Metals Chapter 13.


Directional Dependence of Scattering 13.1 Scattering of Unpolarized and Linearly Polarized Light 13.2 Measurement and Particle Production Techniques 13.3 Measurements on Single Particles 13.4 Some Theoretical and Experimental Results 13.5 Particle Sizing 13.6 Scattering Matrix Symmetry 13.7 Measuring the Scattering Matrix 13.


8 Some Results for the Scattering Matrix 13.9 Summary: Applicability of Lorenz-Mie Theory.


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