Abstract

We consider external reflection rainbow caustics due to the reflection of light from a pendant droplet where the light rays are at an arbitrary angle with respect to the horizontal. We compare this theory to observation of glare spots from pendant drops on grass; we also consider the potential application of this theory to the determination of liquid surface tension.

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Rainbows in the grass. I. External-reflection rainbows from pendant droplets

James A. Lock, Charles L. Adler, and Richard W. Fleet
Appl. Opt. 47(34) H203-H213 (2008)

Theory of the observations made of high-order rainbows from a single water droplet

James A. Lock
Appl. Opt. 26(24) 5291-5298 (1987)

Rainbows by elliptically deformed drops. I. Möbius shift for high-order rainbows

James A. Lock and Gunther P. Können
Appl. Opt. 56(19) G88-G97 (2017)

Non-Debye enhancements in the Mie scattering of light from a single water droplet

James A. Lock and Judith R. Woodruff
Appl. Opt. 28(3) 523-529 (1989)

Exterior caustics produced in scattering of a diagonally incident plane wave by a circular cylinder: semiclassical scattering theory analysis

James A. Lock, Charles L. Adler, and Edward A. Hovenac
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 17(10) 1846-1856 (2000)