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Can light wave behave as a beam as it is scattered by a particulate medium?

Authors :
Zhanghang Zhu
Ke Cheng
Tao Wang
Xiaoning Pan
Source :
Optik. 166:132-137
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2018.

Abstract

The possibility for a particulate medium to produce field which can behave as a beam is discussed. It is demonstrated that when a plane light wave is scattered from a particulate medium, the beam condition, i.e., the condition under which the scattered field could retain its beam-like form, is governed by both the property of each particle and the property of the distribution characteristic. As an example, the scattered field of a collection of Gaussian-distributed particles is discussed, and some special cases are investigated to illustrate the beam condition.

Details

ISSN :
00304026
Volume :
166
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Optik
Accession number :
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