Electromagnetic Scattering by Particles and Particle Groups

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The macroscopic Maxwell equations and monochromatic fields; 3. Fundamental homogeneous-medium solutions of the macroscopic Maxwell equations; 4. Basic theory of frequency-domain electromagnetic scattering by a fixed finite object; 5. Far-field scattering; 6. The Foldy equations; 7. The Stokes parameters; 8. Poynting–Stokes tensor; 9. Polychromatic electromagnetic fields; 10. Polychromatic scattering by fixed and randomly changing objects; 11. Measurement of electromagnetic energy flow; 12. Measurement of the Stokes parameters; 13. Description of far-field scattering in terms of actual optical observables; 14. Electromagnetic scattering by a small random group of sparsely distributed particles; 15. Statistically isotropic and mirror-symmetric random particles; 16. Numerical computations and laboratory measurements of electromagnetic scattering; 17. Far-field observables: qualitative and quantitative traits; 18. Electromagnetic scattering by discrete random media: far field; 19. Near-field scattering by a sparse discrete random medium: microphysical radiative transfer theory; 20. Radiative transfer in plane-parallel particulate media; 21. Weak localization; 22. Epilogue; Appendix A. Dyads and dyadics; Appendix B. Free-space dyadic Green's function; Appendix C. Euler rotation angles; Appendix D. Spherical-wave expansion of a plane wave in the far zone; Appendix E. Integration quadrature formulas; Appendix F. Wigner d-functions; Appendix G. Stationary phase evolution of a double integral; Appendix H. Hints and answers to selected problems; Appendix I. List of acronyms; References; Index.