Article
Debye Series for Light Scattering by a Spheroid
Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics Image Science and Vision
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-1-2010
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Abstract
The Debye series is developed for electromagnetic scattering by a spheroid in order to decompose the far-zone fields into various physical processes. The geometrical rainbow angle and supernumerary spacing parameter are determined from the Debye intensity by fitting the results to an Airy function and comparing them to their assumed values in ray optics and Airy theory, respectively. Eccentricity-related scattering phenomena including the rainbow's angular shift, the disappearance of the rainbow, and the rainbow-enhanced glory are quantitatively demonstrated and analyzed. (c) 2010 Optical Society of America
DOI
10.1364/JOSAA.27.000671
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Citation Information
Xu, Feng, James A. Lock, and Cameron Tropea. "Debye Series for Light Scattering by a Spheroid." Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics Image Science and Vision 27 (2010): 671-686.