Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2003
Publication Title
Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics Image Science and Vision
Abstract
The scattering far zone for light transmitted through a sphere following p - 1 internal reflections by a family of near-grazing incident rays is subdivided into a lit region and a shadow region. The sharpness of the ray theory transition between the lit and the shadow regions is smoothed in wave theory by radiation shed by electromagnetic surface waves. It is shown that when higher-order terms in the physical optics approximation to the phase of the partial-wave scattering amplitudes are included, the transition between the lit and the shadow regions becomes a two-ray-to-zero-ray transition, called a superweak caustic in analogy to the more familiar scattering caustics and weak scattering caustics. One of the merged rays is a tunneling ray. (C) 2003 Optical Society of America.
Repository Citation
Lock, James A., "Role of the Tunneling Ray in Near-Critical-Angle Scattering by a Dielectric Sphere" (2003). Physics Faculty Publications. 71.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/sciphysics_facpub/71
Original Citation
Lock, James A. "Role of the Tunneling Ray in Near-Critical-Angle Scattering by a Dielectric Sphere." Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics Image Science and Vision 20 (2003): 499-507.
DOI
10.1364/JOSAA.20.000499
Version
Publisher's PDF
Publisher's Statement
This paper was published in Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics Image Science and Vision and is made available as an electronic reprint with the permission of OSA. The paper can be found at the following URL on the OSA website: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/josaa/abstract.cfm?URI=josaa-20-3-499. Systematic or multiple reproduction or distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means is prohibited and is subject to penalties under law.
Volume
20
Issue
3
