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Abstract:
In this paper, a vector ray tracing (VRT) model is used to simulate optical caustic structures, including rainbow and hyperbolic umbilic (HU) fringes, in the tertiary rainbow region of light scattering from oblate spheroidal droplets. In order to apply the optical caustic structures to particle diagnostics, the evolution of rainbow and HU fringes with an increase in the aspect ratio of oblate spheroidal droplets is investigated in detail, and the curvature of rainbow fringes are calculated. Next, on the basis of the VRT model, the location of cusp caustics is calculated and compared with theoretical prediction.
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