Аннотация
Although the model of randomly oriented nonspherical particles has been used in a great variety of applications of far-field electromagnetic scattering, it has never been defined in strict mathematical terms. In this Letter, we use the formalism of Euler rigid-body rotations to clarify the concept of statistically random particle orientations and derive its immediate corollaries in the form of the most general mathematical properties of the orientation-averaged extinction and scattering matrices. Our results serve to provide a rigorous mathematical foundation for numerous publications in which the notion of randomly oriented particles and its light-scattering implications have been considered intuitively obvious.
Язык оригинала | английский |
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Страницы (с-по) | 494-497 |
Число страниц | 4 |
Журнал | Optics Letters |
Том | 42 |
Номер выпуска | 3 |
DOI | |
Состояние | Опубликовано - 1 фев 2017 |