Benchmarks in the literature

• One of the oldes collection of benchmarks in light scattering looks to be the book of N.C.Wickramasinghe (1973, Light Scattering Functions for Small Particles with Applications in Astronomy, Chapman & Hall, London). It contains a lot of tables of various light scattering characteristics calculated for different scatterer shapes (spheres, infinite cylinders), sizes and refractive indices. Note that some parts of the tables have essential errors (more detals will be given later).
  
  
• Some other less massive benchmark result presentations are as follows (a preliminary list)
  - Voshchinnikov & Farafonov (1985) Opt. Spectrosc. 58, 81.
  - Voshchinnikov & Farafonov (1985) Opt. Spectrosc. 59, 750.
  - Voshchinnikov & Farafonov (1986) Opt. Spectrosc. 60, 635.
  - Mishchenko (1991) J. Opt. Soc. Am. A8, 871.
  - Kuik et al. (1992) J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transf. 47, 477.
  - Hovenier et al. (1996) J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transf. 55, 695.
  - Mishchenko et al. (1996) Appl. Opt. 35, 4927.
  - Mishchenko & Mackowski (1996) J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transf. 55, 683.
  - Wielaard et al. (1997) Appl. Opt. 36, 4305.
  - Mishchenko (2000) Appl. Opt. 39, 1026.
  - Voshchinnikov et al. (2000) J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transf. 65, 877.
  
  A recent review of papers of this kind is given by Mishchenko et al. (2002, Scattering, Absorption, and Emission of Light by Small Particles, Cambridge Univ. Press).