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Theory of the rainbow

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Abstract

A new theory of the rainbow based on Huygens’s principle is given and compared with the complex angular momentum theory. There is good agreement over a large range of angles and size parameters for both the magnetic and electric polarizations.

© 1979 Optical Society of America

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