Rayleigh scattering (/ˈreɪli/ RAY-lee), named after the 19th-century British physicist Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt), is the predominantly elastic...

using scattered light to measure particle size. Rayleigh scattering describes the elastic scattering of light by spheres that are much smaller than the...

scattering Rayleigh scattering Resonances in scattering from potentials Rutherford scattering Small-angle scattering Scattering amplitude Scattering from...

In physics, Raman scattering or the Raman effect (/ˈrɑːmən/) is the inelastic scattering of photons by matter, meaning that there is both an exchange of...

"Rayleigh scattering", which notably explains why the sky is blue. He studied and described transverse surface waves in solids, now known as "Rayleigh...

scattering by particles in a colloid such as a very fine suspension (a sol). Also known as Tyndall scattering, it is similar to Rayleigh scattering,...

In electromagnetism, Brillouin scattering (also known as Brillouin light scattering or BLS), named after Léon Brillouin, refers to the interaction of light...

energy and momentum. Rayleigh scattering is the dominant elastic scattering mechanism in the X-ray regime. Inelastic forward scattering gives rise to the...

Hyper–Rayleigh scattering optical activity (/ˈreɪli/ RAY-lee), a form of chiroptical harmonic scattering, is a nonlinear optical physical effect whereby...

codes available to calculate light scattering properties in DDA approximation. Rayleigh scattering regime is the scattering of light, or other electromagnetic...

[citation needed] The dominant radiative scattering processes in the atmosphere are Rayleigh scattering and Mie scattering; they are elastic, meaning that a...

Elastic scattering is a form of particle scattering in scattering theory, nuclear physics and particle physics. In this process, the kinetic energy of...

of environment may also approximate Rayleigh fading. If the environment is such that, in addition to the scattering, there is a strongly dominant signal...

Compton scattering (or the Compton effect) is the quantum theory of high frequency photons scattering following an interaction with a charged particle...

Earth appears as a blue dot in the photograph primarily because of Rayleigh scattering of sunlight in its atmosphere. In Earth's air, short-wavelength visible...

hazel eyes results from the Tyndall scattering of light in the stroma, a phenomenon similar to Rayleigh scattering which accounts for the blue sky. Neither...

Filtered Rayleigh scattering (FRS) is a diagnostic technique which measures velocity, temperature, and pressure by determining Doppler shift, total intensity...

particles scatter white sunlight as it passes through the Earth's atmosphere. This is done by a combination of Rayleigh scattering and Mie scattering. As a...

Rayleigh scattering based distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) systems use fiber optic cables to provide distributed strain sensing. In DAS, the optical...

Rayleigh may refer to: Rayleigh scattering Rayleigh–Jeans law Rayleigh waves Rayleigh (unit), a unit of photon flux named after the 4th Baron Rayleigh...

where he followed up his father's work on light scattering, which is now known as Rayleigh scattering, resulting in some papers published in the Proceedings...

to Rayleigh scattering by air molecules and particles much smaller than the wavelength of visible light (less than 50 nm in diameter). The scattering by...

The Rayleigh sky model describes the observed polarization pattern of the daytime sky. Within the atmosphere, Rayleigh scattering of light by air molecules...

relatively small but can be larger than Rayleigh scattering limits. The theory was derived by Lord Rayleigh in 1881 and was applied to homogeneous spheres...

from the classical electromagnetic theory, elastic light scattering (or Rayleigh scattering) by straight CNTs has anisotropic angular dependence, and...

electromagnetic waves and the transmitting medium (Brillouin scattering and Raman scattering), important in fiber optics, see below; Elastic collisions...

and the deep sea appear blue because of an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering. An optical effect called the Tyndall effect explains blue eyes....

Forced Rayleigh scattering (FRS) is an experimental method in physics and chemistry based on light scattering and is usually used to measure diffusion...

high Sun at noon. Particles in the air scatter short-wavelength light (blue and green) through Rayleigh scattering much more strongly than longer-wavelength...

near-infrared range of light, Rayleigh scattering is the dominant effect. Rayleigh scattering is the dispersion or elastic scattering of particles far smaller...