A Comparison of Extinction Efficiencies in the Eikonal and the Anomalous Diffraction Approximations for Spheres |
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| Authors: | S.K. Sharma D.J. Somerford |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Physics , University of Wales College of Cardiff , PO Box 913, Cardiff, CF1 3TH, Wales |
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| Abstract: | Abstract Extinction curves in the eikonal approximation and the anomalous diffraction approximation have been compared with exact extinction curves for homogeneous spheres of various refractive indices. Our results show the anomalous diffraction approximation to be more suitable for extinction calculations. |
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