Vol. 9, issue 06, article # 22

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.    PDF
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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.