OPTIKA ATMOSFERY I OKEANA JOURNAL
V.E. ZUEV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS
Vol. 9, issue 06, article # 22
pdf Lopatin V. N., Shepelevich N. V. Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) method as principal approximation for description of light scattering by "soft" particles. // Atmospheric and oceanic optics. 1996. V. 9. No. 06. P. 538-541.Copy the reference to clipboard
Abstract:
It is proved that the Rayleigh, Rayleigh–Hans–Debye, anomalous diffraction, and Fraunhofer diffraction approximations are the corollaries of the integral wave equation in the WKB approximation. The homogeneous sphere is considered as an example.