Electromagnetic Wave Scattering on Nonspherical Particles: Basic Methodology and Simulations

✍ Scribed by Tom Rother (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 298
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences 145
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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. Example simulations are performed in order to demonstrate the usefulness of the developed formalism as well as to introduce the simulation software which is provided on a CD-ROM with the book.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-12
Scattering as a Boundary Value Problem....Pages 1-15
Filling the Mathematical Tool Box....Pages 17-76
First Approach to the Green Functions: The Rayleigh Method....Pages 77-98
Second Approach to the Green Functions: The Self-Consistent Way....Pages 99-121
Other Solution Methods....Pages 123-163
The Rayleigh Hypothesis....Pages 165-195
Physical Basics of Electromagnetic Wave Scattering....Pages 197-233
Numerical Simulations of Scattering Experiments....Pages 235-276
Recommended Literature....Pages 277-287
Back Matter....Pages 1-4

✦ Subjects

Optics and Electrodynamics;Engineering, general