Light Scattering Reviews 4 (eBook)

 I  graduated from the Physical Department of the Belarusian State University in Minsk, Belarus (1983). Since then I have worked for the last 22 years in the Laboratory of light scattering media optics at the Institute of Physics (Minsk, Belarus). At the moment I am working with the SCIAMACHY algorithm development team at the Institute of Environmental Physics in Bremen (Germany). The main task is the development of new cloud retrieval algorithms for water and ice clouds as seen by the spectrometer SCIAMACHY (in space from 2002). Main results are obtained in the field of geometrical optics, asymptotic radiative transfer theory and trace gases/aerosol/cloud properties retrievals using passive remote sensing techniques. I have written three books: Light Scattering Media Optics (1999, 2001, 2004), Polarization Optics of Random Media (2003), and                

Contents 5
List of Contributors 13
Notes on the contributors 15
Preface 23
I Single Light Scattering 28
1 Scaled analogue experiments in electromagnetic scattering 29
2 Laboratory measurements of the light scattered by clouds of solid particles by imaging technique 57
3 Jones and Mueller matrices: structure, symmetry relations and information content 97
4 Green functions for plane wave scattering on single nonspherical particles 146
II Radiative Transfer 192
5 Space-time Green functions for diffusive radiation transport, in application to active and passive cloud probing 193
6 Radiative transfer of luminescence light in biological tissue 317
7 The characteristic equation of radiative transfer theory 370
III Dynamic and Static Light Scattering: Selected Applications 453
8 Advances in dynamic light scattering techniques 454
9 Static and dynamic light scattering by aerosols in a controlled environment 489
Index 530