Lorenz-Mie theory - the scattering phase function of a spherical particle

By Jeppe Revall Frisvad (based on one paper [Frisvad et al. 2007] for the Lorenz-Mie coefficients and another paper [Frisvad 2018] for the angular distribution)

Mouse control: orbit - left button, dolly - middle button, pan - right button.
Touchscreen control: orbit - one finger, dolly - two finger pinch, pan - two finger drag. [properly supported in Chrome]

Light wavelength:
Particle radius:
Particle index of refration:	+ i
Medium index of refraction:	+ i
Incident wave inhomogeneity:	+ i
Polarization components:	⊥ , \|\|

Code Samples

Matlab code (called inhLMabs)
JavaScript code (this page, using WebGL utility libraries from Angel and Shreiner [2015])

References

Lorenz, L. Lysbevægelser i og uden for en af plane Lysbølger belyst Kugle. Det kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter 6, pp. 1–62. 6. Række, naturvidenskabelig og mathematisk Afdeling VI. 1. 1890.
Mie, G. Beiträge zur Optik trüber Medien, speziell kolloidaler Metallösungen. Annalen der Physik 25, pp. 377-445. IV. Folge. 1908.
Bohren, C. F., and Huffman, D. R. Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small Particles. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1983.
Frisvad, J. R., Christensen, N. J., and Jensen, H. W. Computing the scattering properties of participating media using Lorenz-Mie theory ACM Transactions on Graphics 26(3), pp. 60:1-60:10, July 2007.
Angel, E., and Shreiner, D. Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach with WebGL, 7th edition. Pearson, 2015.
Frisvad, J. R. Phase function of a spherical particle when scattering an inhomogeneous electromagnetic plane wave. Journal of the Optical Society of America A 35(4), pp. 669-680. April 2018.