Backscattering by nonspherical particles: A review of methods and suggested new approaches

CF Bohren, SB Singham - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
Scattering of electromagnetic radiation near the backward direction is more sensitive to
particle shape than scattering near the forward direction. Mie theory is therefore of dubious …

Evaluation of the scattering matrix of an arbitrary particle using the coupled dipole approximation

SB Singham, GC Salzman - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 1986 - pubs.aip.org
The coupled dipole approximation is applied to the calculation of the scattering matrix of an
arbitrary particle. Both isotropic and anisotropic dipoles are used in the calculations. The …

Light scattering by an arbitrary particle: a physical reformulation of the coupled dipole method

SB Singham, CF Bohren - Optics Letters, 1987 - opg.optica.org
The coupled dipole model of scattering by an arbitrary particle has been reformulated in
terms of internal scattering processes of all orders. This formalism readily permits physical …

Light scattering by an arbitrary particle: the scattering-order formulation of the coupled-dipole method

SB Singham, CF Bohren - JOSA A, 1988 - opg.optica.org
The field scattered by an arbitrary particle modeled as an array of coupled dipoles can be
expressed as an infinite series in terms of scattering orders. The fields of a given scattering …

The scattering matrix for randomly oriented particles

MK Singham, SB Singham, GC Salzman - The Journal of chemical …, 1986 - pubs.aip.org
An efficient numerical method is derived for evaluation of the scattering properties of
randomly distributed particles described by the coupled dipole approximation. An exact …

Scattering of unpolarized and polarized light by particle aggregates of different size and fractal dimension

SB Singham, CF Bohren - Langmuir, 1993 - ACS Publications
The coupled dipole method has been used to study the light scattering properties of fractal
aggregates. The importance of including dipolar interactions in calculating the total …

Phase differential scattering from microspheres

RG Johnston, SB Singham, GC Salzman - Applied optics, 1986 - opg.optica.org
Differential phase measurements on scattered light are possible using the two-frequency
Zeeman effect laser. We refer to such measurements as phase differential scattering (PDS) …

Polarizabilities for light scattering from chiral particles

SB Singham, CW Patterson… - The Journal of chemical …, 1986 - pubs.aip.org
The coupled dipole method is used to calculate the circular intensity differential scattering
(CIDS) from chiral particles. The particles are described by a collection of spherical or …

Circular intensity differential scattering of light by hierarchical molecular structures

CW Patterson, SB Singham, GC Salzman… - The Journal of …, 1986 - pubs.aip.org
The theory of the circular intensity differential scattering (CIOS) has previously been
considered for molecules with one level of chiral structure. 1-8 Biological macromolecules …

Hybrid method in light scattering by an arbitrary particle

SB Singham, CF Bohren - Applied optics, 1989 - opg.optica.org
A hybrid method for light scattering by an arbitrary particle using the scattering-order
formulation of the coupled dipole method is described. An arbitrary particle is divided into …