LLE Review, Volume 67 119 The experimental study of parametric instabilities in longscale-length laser plasmas is very important for inertial confinement fusion (ICF). Backscattered light near the incident light wavelength has been observed in many laserplasma experiments and is generally attributed to stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS).1,2 Stimulated Brillouin scattering is a parametric ins...

We demonstrate the use of a full-wave electromagnetic field simulator to verify terahertz (THz) transmission-mode spectroscopic measurements of periodic arrays containing subwavelength cylindrical scatterers. Many existing THz scattering studies utilize analytical solutions, which were developed for a single scatterer. For multiple scatterers, a scaling factor equal to the number of scatterers ...

The problem of an electromagnetic wave scattered from a random medium layer with rough boundaries is formulated using integral equations which involve two kinds of Green functions. The first one describes the wave scattered by the random medium and the rough boundaries, and the second one which corresponds to the unperturbed Green functions describes the scattering by an homogeneous layer with ...

Scattering of electromagnetic (EM) waves by one and many small (ka 1) impedance particles Dm of an arbitrary shape, embedded in a homogeneous medium, is studied. Analytic formula for the field, scattered by one particle, is derived. The scattered field is of the order O(a2−κ), where κ ∈ [0, 1) is a number. This field is much larger than in the Rayleigh-type scattering. An equation is derived fo...

We consider scattering of time-harmonic electromagnetic waves from an unbounded penetrable dielectric layer mounted on a perfectly conducting infinite plate. This model describes for instance propagation of monochromatic light through dielectric photonic assemblies mounted on a metal plate. We give a variational formulation for the electromagnetic scattering problem in a suitable Sobolev space ...

A reduction of the Maxwell’s system to a Fredholm second-kind integral equation with weakly singular kernel is given for electromagnetic (EM) wave scattering by one and many small bodies. This equation is solved asymptotically as the characteristic size of the bodies tends to zero. The technique developed is used for solving the manybody EM wave scattering problem by rigorously reducing it to s...

Scattering of electromagnetic waves by many small particles of arbitrary shapes is reduced rigorously to solving linear algebraic system of equations bypassing the usual usage of integral equations. The matrix elements of this linear algebraic system have physical meaning. They are expressed in terms of the electric and magnetic polarizability tensors. Analytical formulas are given for calculat...

In this thesis, the effect of volume scattering from the buried particles in half-space random media on the radar backscattering cross section is investigated. The radar clutter from a flat desert area is modeled as spherical scatterers randomly embedded within a layered medium with flat interfaces. Three approaches are used to calculate the backscattering coefficients. The Monte Carlo method b...