Abstract

I review the theory of the scattering of a Gaussian laser beam by a dielectric spherical particle and give the details for constructing a computer program to implement the theory. Computational results indicate that if the width of the laser beam is much less than the diameter of the particle and if the axis of the beam is incident near the edge of the particle, the fifth-, sixth-, and ninth-order rainbows should be evident in the far-field scattered intensity. I performed an experiment that yielded tentative evidence for the presence of the sixth-order rainbow.

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Rigorous justification of the localized approximation to the beam-shape coefficients in generalized Lorenz–Mie theory. II. Off-axis beams

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High-order rainbows of a spherical particle produced by near-grazing incident light

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Improved Gaussian beam-scattering algorithm

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Rigorous justification of the localized approximation to the beam-shape coefficients in generalized Lorenz–Mie theory. I. On-axis beams

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