Optical fiber sensors offer unprecedented features, the most unique of which is the ability of monitoring variations of the observed physical field with spatial continuity along the fiber. These distributed optical fiber sensors are based on the scattering processes that originate from the interaction between light and matter. Among the three different scattering processes that may take place i...

Collective modes of molecular motion result in long-range correlations between molecules. Orientation correlations between the molecules of an isotropic fluid owing to polar collective modes result in hyper-Rayleigh scattering with distinctive polarization and angle dependence. The polarization and angle dependence for hyper-Rayleigh scattering from polar transverse-optical and longitudinal-opt...

Comparison of the rain rate estimated with the assumptions of Rayleighand Mie scattering is made. We analyzed the different relationships between the radar reflective factor and rain rate (so-called Z-R relationship) with both scattering models for different DSD (droplet size distribution) and rainfall types as the wavelength is 2.2cm which is in accord with the band of TRMM/PR. Meanwhile we in...

The polarization-resolved electric field autocorrelation function for p-order scattering was derived from the order-of-scattering solution of the exact equations for electromagnetic multiple Rayleigh scattering and was calculated for 2 </= p </= 6 for particles undergoing diffusive motion in an idealized sample cell. It was found that the polarization-channel and the scattering-angle dependence...

In this work, we determined the analytical expressions of the form factor of a cubical particle in the WKB approximation. We adapted some variables (size parameter, refractive index, the scattering angle) and found the form factor in the approximation of Rayleigh-Gans-Debye (RGD), Anomalous Diffraction (AD), and determined the efficiency factor of the extinction. Finally, to illustrate our form...

Surface plasmons supported by metal nanoparticles are perturbed by coupling to a surface that is polarizable. Coupling results in enhancement of near fields and may increase the scattering efficiency of radiative modes. In this study, we investigate the Rayleigh and Raman scattering properties of gold nanoparticles functionalized with cyanine deposited on silicon and quartz wafers and on gold t...

It is expected that the state of an atom or molecule, initially put into an excited state with an energy below the ionization threshold, relaxes to a groundstate by spontaneous emission of photons which propagate to spatial infinity. In this paper, this picture is established for a large class of models of non-relativistic atoms and molecules coupled to the quantized radiation field, but with t...