Light Scattering in Crystals with Surface Corrections.

Abstract

A summary is given of techniques and results for calculating light scattering in anisotropic crystals valid for arbitrary directions of the incident beam, the scattered beam and the crystal surface normal relative to the crystal axes. A dyadic Green's function that distinguishes ray and propagation directions leads to a scattering efficiency inside the crystal that involves the Gaussian curvature of the surface of wave normals. After taking account of the solid angle expansion and the source volume demagnification at the crystal surface, a scattering formula is given suitable for comparison with experiments done outside the crystal. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA038403

Entities

People

  • Donald F. Nelson
  • Melvin Lax

Organizations

  • City College of New York

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Brillouin Scattering
  • Crystal Lattice Vibrations
  • Detectors
  • Electric Fields
  • Equations
  • Frequency
  • Laser Beams
  • Light Scattering
  • Measuring Instruments
  • New York
  • Optical Properties
  • Optics
  • Polaritons
  • Raman Scattering
  • Refractive Index
  • Scattering
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Wave Propagation and Nonlinear Chaotic Dynamics.