Scattering and Absorption of a Wave by a Single Particle

This chapter contains sections titled:

• Cross Sections and Scattering Amplitude

• General Properties of Cross Sections

• Forward Scattering Theorem

• Integral Representations of Scattering Amplitude and Absorption Cross Section

• Rayleigh Scattering

• Rayleigh-Debye Scattering (Born Approximation)

• WKB Interior Wave Number Approximation

• Mie Theory

• Elliptic Polarization and the Stokes Parameters

• Partial Polarization and Natural Light

• Addition of Independent Waves

• Scattering Amplitude Functions f11 , f12 , f21 , and f22 and the Stokes Matrix

• Transformation of the Stokes Parameters for Rotation about the Axis

• Particle Size Distribution

• Acoustic Waves

• Acoustic Scattering