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This chapter addresses several related topics: the existence of direct transmission (or zero-order) bows in radially inhomogeneous spheres for some specific refractive index profiles; a method for obtaining analytic solutions of the radial electromagnetic wave equations (one for each polarization) in both spherical and cylindrical geometry; scalar plane wave scattering by a transparent sphere, and its connection with the scattering matrix of potential scattering theory.
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Adam, J.A. (2015). Scattering of electromagnetic plane waves in radially inhomogeneous media: ray theory, exact solutions and connections with potential scattering theory. In: Kokhanovsky, A. (eds) Light Scattering Reviews 9. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37985-7_3
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