Electromagnetic Wave Scattering on Nonspherical Particles: Basic Methodology and Simulations

✍ Scribed by Tom Rother, Michael Kahnert (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 368
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences 145
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book gives a detailed overview of the theory of electromagnetic wave scattering on single, homogeneous, but nonspherical particles. Beside the systematically developed Green’s function formalism of the first edition this second and enlarged edition contains additional material regarding group theoretical considerations for nonspherical particles with boundary symmetries, an iterative T-matrix scheme for approximate solutions, and two additional but basic applications. Moreover, to demonstrate the advantages of the group theoretical approach and the iterative solution technique, the restriction to axisymmetric scatterers of the first edition was abandoned.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Scattering as a Boundary Value Problem....Pages 1-15
Filling the Mathematical Tool Box....Pages 17-79
First Approach to the Green Functions: The Rayleigh Method....Pages 81-103
Second Approach to the Green Functions: The Self-Consistent Way....Pages 105-128
Other Solution Methods....Pages 129-170
The Rayleigh Hypothesis....Pages 171-201
Physical Basics of Electromagnetic Wave Scattering....Pages 203-239
Scattering on Particles with Discrete Symmetries....Pages 241-286
Numerical Simulations of Scattering Experiments....Pages 287-343
Recommended Literature....Pages 345-355
Back Matter....Pages 357-360

✦ Subjects

Optics and Electrodynamics;Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics;Astrophysics and Astroparticles;Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering;Numerical and Computational Physics