Electromagnetic scattering by particles and particle groups : an introduction / Michael I. Mishchenko.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.Description: xviii, 435 p., [16] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cmISBN: - 9780521519922 (hbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-426) and index.
1. Introduction;
2. The macroscopic Maxwell equations and monochromatic fields;
3. Fundamental homogeneous-medium solutions of the macroscopic Maxwell equations;
4. Basic theory of frequency-domain electromagnetic scattering by a fixed finite object;
5. Far-field scattering;
6. The Foldy equations;
7. The Stokes parameters;
8. Poynting-Stokes tensor;
9. Polychromatic electromagnetic fields;
10. Polychromatic scattering by fixed and randomly changing objects;
11. Measurement of electromagnetic energy flow;
12. Measurement of the Stokes parameters;
13. Description of far-field scattering in terms of actual optical observables;
14. Electromagnetic scattering by a small random group of sparsely distributed particles;
15. Statistically isotropic and mirror-symmetric random particles;
16. Numerical computations and laboratory measurements of electromagnetic scattering;
17. Far-field observables: qualitative and quantitative traits;
18. Electromagnetic scattering by discrete random media: far field;
19. Near-field scattering by a sparse discrete random medium: microphysical radiative transfer theory;
20. Radiative transfer in plane-parallel particulate media;
21. Weak localization;
22. Epilogue;
Appendix A. Dyads and dyadics;
Appendix B. Free-space dyadic Green's function;
Appendix C. Euler rotation angles;
Appendix D. Spherical-wave expansion of a plane wave in the far zone;
Appendix E. Integration quadrature formulas;
Appendix F. Wigner d-functions;
Appendix G. Stationary phase evolution of a double integral; Appendix H. Hints and answers to selected problems;
References;
Index.
A self-contained, accessible introduction to the basic concepts, formalism and recent advances in electromagnetic scattering, for researchers and graduate students.
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