Scattering of waves with normal amplitude distribution from cylinders

The scattering of waves with a Gaussian amplitude distribution from perfectly conducting and radially inhomogeneous dielectric cylinders is presented. The plane wave scattering solution is obtained as the limiting case when the radius of the scatterer is much smaller than the size of the wave. The scattering of beam waves from spherically symmetric particles was considered recently by Morita et al. [1]. In this communication the case of scattering of waves with a Gaussian amplitude distribution from cylindrically symmetric and infinitely long targets is considered. In a future contribution the scattering of beam waves at normal and oblique incidence from cylindrically symmetric fibers will be reported.