Bohren C.F., Huffman D.R. Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small Particles

Wiley, 1998, 545 pp.
Cumulus clouds in the summer afternoon sky present a striking contrast of white against a bright blue sky. During a sudden thundershower the primary and secondary rainbows display their multicolored arches. Other colors in nature are the dark green of forest foliage and the red and orange hues of the Grand Canyon in early morning. High in the mountains or on the desert when the air is clean one can clearly see dark patches in the bright band of the Milky Way. Chimney smut turns all it touches to dirty blackness, and iridescent opal shimmers with a variety of colors. All these visual phenomena and many more are manifestations of scattering and absorption of light by small particles, which is the subject of this book. We do not, however, restrict ourselves to visible light.Part 1—Basic TheoryElectromagnetic Theory.
Absorption and Scattering by an Arbitrary Particle.
Absorption and Scattering by a Sphere.
Particles Small Compared with the Wavelength.
Rayleigh-Gans Theory.
Geometrical Optics.
A Potpourri of Particles.
Part 2— Optical Properties Of Bulk Matter
Classical Theories of Optical Constants
Measured Optical Properties.
Part 3 — Optical Properties Of Particles.
Extinction.
Surface Modes in Small Particles.
Angular Dependence of Scattering.
A Miscellany of Applications.
Appendixes Computer Programs