Numerical study of diffraction effects in light scattering
by multiple cylindrical scatterers
J. Schäfer* and A. Kienle
- Institut für Lasertechnologien in der Medizin und Meßtechnik an der Universität Ulm, Helmholtzstraße 12, 89081 Ulm, Germany.
We compared Maxwell and radiative transfer theories for light scattering by multiple cylindrical scatterers and observed forward diffraction peaks in the Maxwell solutions. We examined diffraction by dielectric homogeneous obstacles of finite thickness and depicted differences to the scalar diffraction theory for a single slit. We show that for the interpretation of the diffraction effects in our multiple cylinder model the single slit diffraction approximation can be applied.
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