光学表面光散射特性分析

通过对光学表面光散射特性的研究,结果表明:光散射强度随入射光波长的增加而减小,随表面粗糙度增加而增加.     

表面分形球、柱的光散射

分形和分维是近些年才兴起的一门处理复杂事物的新方法￣［１］。本文主要研究具有表面分形的球、柱的光散射特征。我们首先利用几何光学近似研究了一种表面满足自仿射原理的分形均匀球的散射，其散射特性与分维存在一定的关系。我们还利用微扰法讨论了表面具有沟槽的分形柱的光散射的分形特征。     

Visible light scattering study at 470, 550, and 660 nm of components of mineral dust aerosol: Hematite and goethite

Iron oxides, usually in the form of hematite or goethite, comprise an important component of atmospheric mineral dust aerosol. Because these minerals are strong visible absorbers they play a critical role in determining the overall impact of dust aerosol on climate forcing. In this work, results from light scattering measurements from hematite and goethite dust aerosol are presented for three visible wavelengths, λ=470, 550, and 660 nm. We observe important systematic differences in the scattering between these different iron oxide samples, as well as significant wavelength dependence across the visible region of the spectrum. Aerosol size distributions are measured simultaneously with the light scattering, enabling a rigorous comparison between theoretical light scattering models and experimental data. Theoretical simulations of the scattering are carried out using both Mie and T-Matrix theories. Simulations are in reasonably good agreement with experimental data for hematite; thus, our data offer a useful check on tabulated optical constants for hematite. However, simulations show very poor agreement for goethite. The poor agreement in the goethite case is likely the result of particle shape effects related to the rod-like morphology of the goethite particles. This study demonstrates how particle mineralogy and morphology play an important role in dictating the optical properties of mineral dust aerosol, a major component of tropospheric dust.     

Light scattering by needle-type and disk-type particles

A powerful tool to analyze light scattering by 3D arbitrary-shaped homogeneous or inhomogeneous obstacles located in free space is based on volume integral equation. In this paper we apply a weak form of volume integral equation to simulate light scattering by needle- and disk-type particles such as straight and curved cylinders, cylindrical plate and hexagonal prism with high aspect ratio and low and high values of refractive indexes. For problems where discrete sources method could be applied, we calculated differential scattering cross-section using both methods and got excellent agreement in results.     

Determination of particle size in multiphase blends by different methods

Different methods for characterizing the morphology of multiphase blends were applied to a blend of thermoplastic polyurethane with 20 wt% polypropylene as the dispersed phase. Optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), and light scattering were compared. The microscopy methods were evaluated with respect to their suitability for quantitative image analysis for determination of the particle size distribution. Comparison of the particle size distributions revealed that the dependence of the measured particle size on the method of preparation and technique was not very pronounced. The main difference resulted from cutting the particles outside their maximum diameter. The measured particle sizes determined with methods that analyze the whole particles, such as SEM on separated particles and laser light scattering, are larger than those measured on cut specimens. The factor 4/π valid in monodisperse systems for the ratio between the real particle size and that measured on sections was found also to be applicable to this polydisperse blend system. Although light micros-copy requires the least preparation efforts, it is a reliable method for this blend system.     

Laboratory measurements of single light scattering by ensembles of randomly oriented small irregular particles in air. A review

In this paper we present an overview of light scattering experiments devoted to measure one or more elements of the scattering matrix as functions of the scattering angle of ensembles of randomly oriented small irregular particles in air. A summary of the most important findings in light scattering experiments on ensembles of randomly oriented particles in air is given. The particles of interest are relevant for studies of atmospheres of planets and satellites and also for other astronomical bodies and environments. Some applications of light scattering experiments are also presented.     

Optical characterization of metallic aerosols

Airborne metallic particulates from industry and urban sources are highly conducting aerosols. The characterization of these pollutant particles is important for environment monitoring and protection. Because these metallic particulates are highly reflective, their effect on local weather or regional radiation budget may also need to be studied. In this work, light scattering characteristics of these metallic aerosols are studied using exact solutions on perfectly conducting spherical and cylindrical particles. It is found that for perfectly conducting spheres and cylinders, when scattering angle is larger than 90° the linear polarization degree of the scattered light is very close to zero. This light scattering characteristics of perfectly conducting particles is significantly different from that of other aerosols. When these perfectly conducting particles are immersed in an absorbing medium, this light scattering characteristics does not show significant change. Therefore, measuring the linear polarization of scattered lights at backward scattering angles can detect and distinguish metallic particulates from other aerosols. This result provides a great potential of metallic aerosol detection and monitoring for environmental protection.     

Quantum Monte Carlo studies of bound and unbound states

Over the last fifteen years, there has been tremendous progress in understanding how nuclear structure arises from the nucleon-nucleon interaction. I describe the contribution to this progress made by quantum Monte Carlo computational methods, as well as directions to be taken in future work. Most effort in the past has concentrated on energy spectra, and we have had good success in computing the spectra of systems with A≤12. We are now shifting our attention to off-diagonal and scattering/reaction properties of the light nuclei. I also discuss briefly the relation of quantum Monte Carlo methods to other ab initio methods and their particular relevance for weakly-bound nuclei produced at radioactive-beam facilities.     

Mie theory 1908, on the mobile phone 2008

Hundred years ago Gustav Mie published his famous paper on the theory of light scattering by spherical particles. It has been programmed in many programming languages since invention of the computer. Nowadays with the mobile phone becoming an educational tool it would be of interest to port a Mie scattering application to a Java enabled hand set. The objective of this paper is to investigate the feasibility of porting existing Mie software to a hand held device. We will show that the mobile phone can be an advanced programming environment for the Mie theory and we will present some exemplary computational results.     

Different shape models for erythrocyte: Light scattering analysis based on the discrete sources method

In practical applications a precise and fast detection of the shape of a single erythrocyte from its scattering characteristics is needed. For this reason detailed investigations of light scattering properties of erythrocyte and their relation to shape is of great interest in recent years. In this paper we analyze light scattering behavior of different shape models of erythrocyte using the discrete sources method. For this we compare scattering results for oblate spheroid, disk-sphere, Cassini-based shape and a shape for a real strainless erythrocyte introduced by Skalak. Numerical results for the scattering indicatrix and the differential cross section by different shape models and its orientations are presented.     

Comparisons of the discrete-dipole approximation and modified double interaction model methods to predict light scattering from small features on surfaces

Two numerical methods to model light scattering from illuminated features on surfaces are presented. The discrete-dipole approximation (DDA) method is considered, as well as the modified double interaction method (MDIM). The DDA method models electromagnetic scattering of continuous features using discrete dipoles placed on a lattice structure. Sommerfeld integral terms are used to model dipole/surface interaction in the near-field. The MDIM method first computes scattering from the features based in free space using other methods such as Mie theory or other standard light scattering codes (including DDA). The surface interaction is modeled as a first approximation by means of a geometrical shadowing effect and the Fresnel coefficients. Comparisons of the methods will be shown for light scattering from spherical features. The material properties of dielectric and metallic materials will be considered and the feature sizes will be varied. The prediction accuracy and computational requirements of each method will be investigated. For most cases, the studies will show that the DDA method is more accurate than the MDIM method for dielectric materials since the modeling of the feature and surface electromagnetic interaction is more accurate; however, the modified double interaction method may be advantageous over the discrete-dipole approximation method for metallic features because of lesser computational times and memory requirements.     

Temporal reflectance from a light pulse irradiated medium embedded with highly scattering cores

This paper presents a new approach to utilize ultrashort pulsed laser for optical diagnostics with numerical simulations. The method is based on the use of ultrafast pulses with a pulsewidth selected according to the probed medium's radiative property and/or size. Our previous work in nonhomogeneous media has shown that the resulting time-resolved reflectance signal will have a unique characteristic: it will show a direct correlation of ballistic photon travel time and interface location, which is in between different layers or nonhomogeneous regions. The premise is based on utilizing the medium's structural information carried by the ballistic and snake photons without being masked by the diffuse photons. In this study, the space-time correlation is further explored in the case of minimally scattered photons from a large scattering coefficient core region embedded within a less-scattering medium. Time-resolved reflectance signals of the single scattering core and multiple scattering cores within a three-dimensional medium demonstrate the concept and illustrate the additional effect due to the scattered photons from the core region. A unique temporal signal profile's correlation at various detector positions with respect to the scattering core is explained in detail. The result has important implications. This approach will lead to a much simpler and more precise determination of the probed medium's composition or structure. Due to the large computational requirement to obtain the physical details of the light pulse propagation inside highly scattering multi-dimensional media, the reverse Monte-Carlo method is used. The potential applications of the method include non-destructive diagnostics, optical imaging, and remote sensing of underwater objects.     

The dynamic angle-limited integrated scattering (DALIS) method for measuring scattering of light from optical surfaces with random roughness

A new and simple dynamic angle limited integrated scattering (DALIS) method is developed to examine optically smooth reflective surfaces with defined surface form. Our experimental results from two systems show advantages over conventional angle resolved scattering measurement (ARS) methods. By collecting scattered light in a given solid angle, our methods do not require a detection unit with an extremely large dynamic range. Unlike in the common ARS measurement method, here we use a simple linear translation stage to scan scattered light. The power spectrum density function and the autocorrelation function of the surface roughness can be recovered from the measured scattering pattern. This method can be applied to in-workshop inspection of optical polishing processes.     

Optimal design of gold nanoshells for optical imaging and photothermal therapy

Gold nanoshells are of great interest in optical imaging based on their light scattering properties and photothermal therapy due to their light absorption properties. Strong light scattering is essential for optical imaging, while effective photothermal therapy requires high light absorption. In this article, the optimal core radii and shell thicknesses of silica–gold and hollow gold nanoshells, possessing maximal light scattering and absorption at wavelengths between 700 and 1100 nm, are obtained using the Mie theory of a coated sphere. The results show that large-sized gold nanoshells of high aspect ratios (the aspect ratio is defined as the ratio of core radius to shell thickness) are the efficient contrast agents for optical imaging, while smaller gold nanoshells of high aspect ratios are the ideal therapeutic agents for photothermal therapy. From the comparison of the numerical results for silica–gold and hollow gold nanoshells, the latter are seen to offer a little superior light scattering and absorption at smaller particle size. Fitting expressions for the optimal core radii and shell thicknesses are also obtained, which can provide design guidelines for experimentalists to optimize the synthetic process of gold nanoshells.     

Light scattering on nanowire antennas: A semi-analytical approach

Two semi-analytical approaches to solve the problem of light scattering on nanowire antennas are developed and compared. The derivation is based on the exact solution of the plane wave scattering problem in case of an infinite cylinder. The original three-dimensional problem is reduced in two alternative ways to a simple one-dimensional integral equation, which can be solved numerically by a method of moments approach. Scattering cross sections of gold nanowire antennas with different lengths and aspect ratios are analyzed for the optical and near-infrared spectral range. Comparison of the proposed semi-analytical methods with the numerically rigorous discrete dipole approximation method demonstrates good agreement as well as superior numerical performance.     

Blendensysteme für Streulichtphotometer

The geometrical arrangement of slits in the secondary beam of light scattering photometers has been investigated. The hitherto applied configuration of slits, vertically fixed on the secondary beam, requires a volume correction-sinϑ-for the determination of the angle-dependent scattered intensity. Arrangements of slits with varying width which depends on the angle of observation ϑ are proposed. They avoide the volume correction, or render the scattering volume independent of ϑ, and at the same time increase the measuring accuracy. For this purpose two types of mechanically guided slits are considered, utilizing parallelogram- and scissor-type mountings. The conventional and new slit arrangements are used to determine the angular dependence of the total light flux intercepted by the receiver, the angle subtended by the aperture, and the scattering volume, as well as the geometrical error. Measurements employing a light scattering photometer with a fixed and a parallel-guided slit in the secondary beam are reported.

     

Study of the sensitivity of size-averaged scattering matrix elements of nonspherical particles to changes in shape, porosity and refractive index

Studies of the physical parameters that influence the single scattering properties of a size distribution of small particles in random orientation are fundamental in understanding the origin of the observed dependence of the scattering matrix elements on the scattering angle. We present results of extensive calculations of the single scattering matrices of small nonspherical particles performed by a computational model based on the Discrete-Dipole Approximation. We have particularly studied the sensitivity of the size-averaged scattering properties at visible wavelengths of nonspherical, randomly oriented absorbing particles considering changes in shape, porosity and refractive index. These studies have importance regarding the inversion of physical properties of small particles as measured in the laboratory and the dust properties in various astrophysical and atmospherical environments. We have found that size distributions of randomly oriented irregular particles of different shape, including large aspect ratio particles, show similar scattering matrix elements as a function of the scattering angle, in contrast with the pattern found for regularly shaped particles of varying axis ratios, for which the scattering matrix elements as a function of the scattering angle show much larger differences among them. Regarding porosity, we have found a very different pattern in the scattering matrix elements for an ensemble of compact and porous particles. In particular, the linear polarization for incident unpolarized light produced by compact and absorbing particles of large size parameter tend to mimic the pattern found for large absorbing spheres. For porous particles, however, the linear polarization for incident unpolarized light tends to decrease as the size of the particle grows, with the maximum being displaced towards smaller and smaller scattering angles.     

不同表面结构特征圆柱导体的太赫兹散射特性

太赫兹频段下导体表面的细微结构、粗糙度等细节将对目标电磁散射行为产生影响。为衡量这一影响程度,以圆柱导体为例研究了太赫兹频段下目标表面不同结构特征的电磁散射现象及其在图像域的表现规律。利用高频电磁计算方法获得了表面分别为理想光滑、带刻痕和周期粗糙的三种圆柱多姿态角、多频点单站散射场;基于转台成像算法重建了小转角下目标的二维图像。从仿真结果可以看出:m量级的细节特征在太赫兹雷达图像上有着显著的表现,表明太赫兹雷达能够获取更加丰富和精细的目标信息,从而为目标探测识别提供新的特征和技术手段。     

全光汤姆孙散射

随着激光和加速器技术的发展,激光场强度和粒子能量也有所提升,在高场强和高电子能量的条件下,电子与光子的汤姆孙散射过程将达到高度非线性状态,在这种状态下会发生多光子效应,即单个电子同时与多个光子相互作用并辐射一个高能光子,此过程通常称为多光子汤姆孙散射.当场强和粒子能量变得更高时,需要引入量子电动力学理论来解决极端光场物理中的动理学过程.近期,全球多台数拍瓦激光装置逐渐投入使用,激光等离子体相互作用中的此类效应会变得极其显著.而全光汤姆孙散射成为目前研究极端光场物理最佳的实验方案,因此,系统地研究全光多光子汤姆孙散射是本领域未来十年极其重要的方向.本文对近年来全光汤姆孙散射实验从单光子、低阶多光子到高阶多光子的研究进展进行了综述,并对其未来的发展方向进行了展望.另外,伴随着散射过程产生的准直高亮X/伽马射线,有望发展成为具有重要应用价值的紧凑型超亮高能光源.