Article
Assessing the Contributions of Surface Waves and Complex Rays to Far-Field Mie Scattering by Use of the Debye Series
Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics Image Science and Vision
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-1-1992
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Abstract
The contributions of complex rays and the secondary radiation shed by surface waves to scattering by a dielectric sphere are calculated in the context of the Debye-series expansion of the Mie scattering amplitudes. Also, the contributions of geometrical rays are reviewed and compared with those of the Debye series. Interference effects among surface waves, complex rays, and geometrical rays are calculated, and the possibility of observing these interference effects is discussed. Experimental data supporting the observation of a surface-wave-geometrical-ray-interference pattern are presented.
DOI
10.1364/JOSAA.9.000781
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Citation Information
Hovenac, Edward A. and James A. Lock. "Assessing the Contributions of Surface Waves and Complex Rays to Far-Field Mie Scattering by Use of the Debye Series." Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics Image Science and Vision 9 (1992): 781-795.