Mishchenko M.I., Hovenier J.W., Travis L.D. (ed.). Light Scattering by Nonspherical Particles. Theory, Measurements, and Applications

San Diego: Academic, 2000. - 690 p.
Scattering patterns for particles of a single size are usually burdened by the so-called interference structure. This effect is demonstrated by the figure on the cover, which shows T-matrix computations of the degree of linear polarization versus scattering angle and surface-equivalent-sphere size parameter for an oblate spheroid with an aspect ratio of 1.7 and a refractive index of 1.53 + 0.008i. The spheroid has a fixed orientation with respect to the incident beam, and the scattering plane is defined as a plane through the incident beam and the spheroid axis. The figure displays a characteristic butterfly wing pattern composed of sharp alternating MAXIMA and minima. These strong oscillations of polarization within a small range of scattering angle and/or size parameter are a typical manifestation of the interference structure and make comparisons of scattering characteristics of different monodisperse particles particularly difficult. From a modified version of Plate
2.1. Refer to Chapter 2 for more details.