Scattering of P-polarized evanescent waves by a spherical dielectric particle

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• JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 11, pp.2054-2058 (2009)
• Ayyagari, Ravi Sastri; Nair, Sudhakar
• The scattering of plane waves by dielectric particles is an age-old problem for which a complete solution was given by Gustav Mie (1908). Mie's solution to the plane-wave case was...

Optical forces on a Mie spheroidal particle arbitrarily oriented in a counterpropagating trap

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• JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 11, pp.2109-2116 (2009)
• Sosa-Martínez, Héctor; Gutiérrez-Vega, Julio C
• The axial and transverse optical forces exerted by Gaussian beams on an arbitrarily oriented and homogeneous spheroid are calculated and studied within the framework of the Mie...

Investigation of the relationship between the prepulse energy and the delay time in the waveform preservation of a stimulated Brillouin scattering wave by prepulse injection

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• JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 11, pp.2167-2170 (2009)
• Yoon, Jin Woo; Shin, Jae Sung; Kong, Hong Jin; Lee, Jongmin
• It is well known that a stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) wave undergoes deformation of its temporal waveform when the pulse is reflected from the SBS medium. A prepulse...

Three-dimensional scattering by an infinite homogeneous anisotropic elliptic cylinder in terms of Mathieu functions

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• JOSA A, Vol. 26 Issue 11, pp.2282-2291 (2009)
• Mao, Shi-Chun; Wu, Zhen-Sen; Li, Hai-Ying
• A solution to the problem of three-dimensional scattering by an infinite homogeneous anisotropic elliptic cylinder for an obliquely incident plane wave of an arbitrary linear...

Bistatic scattering from a three-dimensional object above a two-dimensional randomly rough surface modeled with the parallel FDTD approach

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• JOSA A, Vol. 26 Issue 11, pp.2383-2392 (2009)
• Guo, L -X; Li, J; Zeng, H
• We present an investigation of the electromagnetic scattering from a three-dimensional (3-D) object above a two-dimensional (2-D) randomly rough surface. A Message Passing...

Non-line-of-sight multiscatter propagation model

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• JOSA A, Vol. 26 Issue 11, pp.2466-2469 (2009)
• Yin, Hongwei; Chang, Shengli; Jia, Honghui; Yang, Jiankun; Yang, Juncai
• A propagation model that describes the characteristics of multiscatter radiation in atmosphere is presented. The model is based on the Monte Carlo method; each scattering process is...

Influence of third-order dispersion on delay performance in broadband Brillouin slow light

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• JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 12, pp.2211-2217 (2009)
• Zhang, Zhiyao; Zhou, Xiaojun; Liang, Rui; Shi, Shenghui
• We investigate theoretically the delay performance of Brillouin slow light employing a broadband pump with a rectangular spectrum. Analytical expression of delayed Gaussian pulse...

Gaussian beam scattering from a dielectric cylinder, including the evanescent region

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• JOSA A, Vol. 26 Issue 12, pp.2558-2566 (2009)
• Pawliuk, Peter; Yedlin, Matthew
• The scattering of a two-dimensional Gaussian beam from a homogeneous dielectric cylinder is analyzed using a plane-wave spectrum. Special attention is given to the computation of the...

Imaging of two particles coupled through radiation

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• JOSA A, Vol. 26 Issue 12, pp.2607-2611 (2009)
• Guo, Wei
• Imaging through a circular aperture of two particles illuminated by an incident field is discussed by calculating the field intensity distribution on an observation plane after the...

Numerical model for the temporal broadening of optical pulses propagating through weak atmospheric turbulence

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 23, pp.3662-3664 (2009)
• Jurado-Navas, Antonio; Garrido-Balsells, José María; Castillo-Vázquez, Miguel; Puerta-Notario, Antonio
• In atmospheric optical communications, propagating pulses may be influenced by pulse spreading owing to turbulence, above all in scenarios characterized by sand and/or dust...

Acoustic index of Ge-doped optical fibers

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 23, pp.3689-3691 (2009)
• Herstrøm, Søren; Grüner-Nielsen, Lars; Pálsdóttir, Bera
• A precise relation between the acoustic index and the amount of doped Ge in silica is established using both energy and wave dispersive spectroscopies on preform pieces and...