This self-contained, interdisciplinary textbook examines and illustrates how small particles absorb and scatter light, treating both in equal measure.
This is because any discussion of the optical behavior of small particles is inseparable from a full understanding of that of the parent material-bulk matter - to divorce one concept from the other is to render any study on scattering theory seriously incomplete.
This second edition has been completely corrected, revised, and updated.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Basic Theory1. Introduction
2. Electromagnetic Theory
3. Absorption and Scattering by an Arbitrary Particle
4. Absorption and Scattering by a Sphere
5. Particles Small compared with the Wavelength
6. Rayleigh-Gans Theory
7. Geometrical Optics
8. A Potpourri of Particles
Part 2: Optical Properties of Bulk Matter
9. Classical Theories of Optical Constants
10. Measured Optical Properties
Part 3: Optical Properties of Particles
11. Extinction
12. Surface Modes in Small Particles
13. Angular Dependence of Scattering
