Electromagnetic Scattering in Disperse Media

Inhomogenous and Anisotropic Particles

V. A. Babenko, L. G. Astafyeva and V. N. Kuzmin

The rapid developments in the discipline of optics of scattering media and the increasing number of applications that have arisen over the past 20 years have transformed research in diverse fields such as biology and medicine, environmental science and atmospheric physics.

Electromagnetic Scattering in Disperse Media is the first book devoted to the problem of light scattering and absorption by inhomogeneous and anisotropic spherical particles. Considerable attention has been paid to various aspects of light absorption inside particles, including internal field distributions, morphology-dependent resonances, and absorption in restricted regions inside particles. It contains many results computed for polydisperse particle systems and gives detailed information on how these can be applied.

The main emphasis given to the optical properties of atmospheric aerosols is enhanced by other practical applications involving inhomogeneous and anisotropic particles described throughout the book.

Table of contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
List of figures
List of tables


1. Coordinate and momentum representations in the theory of light scattering by disperse media
2. Model concepts in aerosol optics
3. Light scattering and absorption by two- and multilayered spheres
4. Light scattering by water-containing atmospheric aerosol particles
5. Integral characteristics of absorption by spheres
6. Internal intensity distributions for homogeneous spherical particles
7. Internal intensity distributions inside spherical two-layered particles (TLPs)
8. Light scattering by radially inhomogeneous particles
9. Light scattering by weakly inhomogeneous and weakly anisotropic particles
10. Some practical aspects of light scattering by inhomogeneous and anisotropic particles


Appendix A    The Riccati--Bessel functions
Appendix B    Basic expressions on associated Legendre polynomials
Appendix C    Vector spherical wave functions
Appendix D    Guide to our light scattering codes
Appendix E    Light scattering codes on the Internet
References
Index

Extent: 464 pages
Binding: hardback
Publication Date: August 2003
ISBN: 978-3-540-43649-2

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