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Electromagnetic Wave Scattering on Nonspherical Particles

Basic Methodology and Simulations

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Authors:
  1. Tom Rother

    1. Raumfahrt (DLR), Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und, Neustrelitz, Germany

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  • Covers all aspects of electromagnetic wave scattering of particles
  • Integrates physics and numerical approaches
  • Useful reference to researchers and engineers
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences (SSOS, volume 145)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-12
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  2. Scattering as a Boundary Value Problem

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    Pages 1-15

  3. Filling the Mathematical Tool Box

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    Pages 17-76

  4. First Approach to the Green Functions: The Rayleigh Method

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    Pages 77-98

  5. Second Approach to the Green Functions: The Self-Consistent Way

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    Pages 99-121

  6. Other Solution Methods

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    Pages 123-163

  7. The Rayleigh Hypothesis

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    Pages 165-195

  8. Physical Basics of Electromagnetic Wave Scattering

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    Pages 197-233

  9. Numerical Simulations of Scattering Experiments

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    Pages 235-276

  10. Recommended Literature

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    Pages 277-287

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 1-4
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About this book

Scatteringofelectromagneticwavesonthree-dimensional,dielectricstructures is a basic interaction process in physics, which is also of great practical - portance. Most of our visual impressions are caused not by direct but by scattered light, as everybody can experience of looking directly at the sun. Several modern measurement technologies in technical and medical diagn- tics are also based on this interaction process. Atmospheric remote sensing with lidar and radar as well as nephelometer instruments for measuring s- pended particulates in a liquid or gas colloid are only a few examples where scattered electromagnetic waves provide us with information concerning the structure and consistence of the objects under consideration. Using the inf- mation of the elastically scattered electromagnetic wave is a common ground of most of those measuring methods. The phrase “elastically scattered” - presses the restriction that we consider such interaction processes only where the scattered wave possesses the same wavelength as the primary incident wave. This book addresses this special scattering problem.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Raumfahrt (DLR), Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und, Neustrelitz, Germany

    Tom Rother

About the author

This book gives a detailed overview of the theory of electromagnetic wave scattering on single, homogeneous, but nonspherical particles. A related Green’s function formalism is systematically developed which provides a powerful mathematical basis not only for the development of numerical approaches but also to discuss those general aspects like symmetry, unitarity, and the validity of Rayleigh’s hypothesis.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Electromagnetic Wave Scattering on Nonspherical Particles

  • Book Subtitle: Basic Methodology and Simulations

  • Authors: Tom Rother

  • Series Title: Springer Series in Optical Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00704-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-00704-0Published: 16 October 2009

  • Series ISSN: 0342-4111

  • Series E-ISSN: 1556-1534

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 294

  • Number of Illustrations: 67 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Classical Electrodynamics, Engineering, general

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