A generalized spherical harmonics solution basic to the scattering of polarized light

DOI10.1007/BF00949034MaRDI QIDQ761035zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors D. Kharzeev

Publication date 1985

Published in ZAMP. Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00949034

zbMATH Keywords

diffusion of polarized lightequation of transferFourier representationgeneralized spherical harmonics solutionscattering and absorbing host mediumStokes parameters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Integro-partial differential equations (45K05) Numerical methods for integral equations (65R20) Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

Review text

A generalized spherical harmonics solution for the azimuthally symmetric component of a Fourier representation of the vector of Stokes parameters basic to the scattering of polarized light in a plane-parallel layer is reported. The final result is continuous in both independent variables and is valid for a general class of scattering matrices. Computational aspects of the developed solution are discussed, and numerical results for the relevant Stokes vector are given for several realistic cases.

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