Open AccessThe far-field modified uncorrelated single-scattering approximation in light scattering by a small volume element
Author(s) -
Peng-Wang Zhai,
George W. Kattawar,
Ping Yang
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.15.008479
Subject(s) - uncorrelated , scattering , physics , light scattering , optics , field (mathematics) , volume (thermodynamics) , dimension (graph theory) , wavelength , mathematics , quantum mechanics , statistics , pure mathematics
Consider light scattering by a small volume element filled with randomly positioned particles, the far-field modified uncorrelated single-scattering approximation (MUSSA) leads to the incoherent summation of the phase matrices of particles in the volume. The validity of the MUSSA is revisited in this paper to include the variation of the particles' positions. Analytical results show that the MUSSA does not require the distance between any pair of particles in the volume to be larger than what is required in the single-scattering approximation (SSA). Instead, it requires the dimension of the volume to be large compared to the incident wavelength. The new results also make the requirements of MUSSA easier to be met. We also analyze energy conservation for the MUSSA.