Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-1-2011

Publication Title

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics Image Science and Vision

Abstract

The p = 0 term of the Mie-Debye scattering amplitude contains the effects of external reflection and diffraction. We computed the reflected intensity in the time domain as a function of the scattering angle and delay time for a short electromagnetic pulse incident on a spherical particle and compared it to the predicted behavior in the forward-focusing region, the specular reflection region, and the glory region. We examined the physical consequences of three different approaches to the exact diffraction amplitude, and determined the signature of diffraction in the time domain. The external reflection surface wave amplitude gradually replaces the diffraction amplitude in the angular transition region between forward-focusing and the region of specular reflection. The details of this replacement were studied in the time domain. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America

Original Citation

Lock, James A. and Philip Laven. "Mie Scattering in the Time Domain. Part II. The Role of Diffraction." Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics Image Science and Vision 28 (2011): 1096-1106.

DOI

10.1364/JOSAA.28.001096

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Publisher's PDF

Volume

28

Issue

6

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