Focusing light from a scattering medium using a variational principle

Autor:	B. Canaud, J.P. Rozet, J.R. Burgan
Rok vydání:	1994
Předmět:	Physics Radiation Photon Scattering Torus Inverse problem Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Light scattering Computational physics Radiative flux Classical mechanics Variational principle Radiative transfer Spectroscopy
Zdroj:	Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 51:485-489
ISSN:	0022-4073
Popis:	A variational procedure is developed for obtaining the geometry of a scattering medium between a source and a detector. This medium maximizes the radiative flux through the detector. It is shown that the variational formalism leads to an equation whose solution is the object's geometry. A simplified model is developed where scattering processes and external source are not taken into account. We study a thin layer of a radiative medium which is confined in a torus with a rectangular cross-section. A strong maximum of the radiative flux is obtained with solutions of the catenary problem.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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