Matrix approach for light scattering from a multilayered rotationally symmetric bianisotropic sphere

Spherically symmetric inhomogeneous bianisotropic media: Wave propagation and light scattering

“…According to Ref. [35], we may look for the solution of Maxwell's equations in rotationally symmetric media as…”

“…[35] to solving Maxwell's equations in inhomogeneous media in spherical coordinates (r, θ , ϕ). The solutions to be obtained can be straightforwardly applied for calculation of the scattered fields from inhomogeneous particles (see Appendices A and B), though the conventional Mie theory [39][40][41] can be used as well.…”

“…II, we outline the matrix approach developed earlier in Ref. [35] for homogeneous media and adapt it for inhomogeneous media. We show that the field differential equations to be solved 2469-9926/2017/95(5)/053818 (11) 053818-1 ©2017 American Physical Society and material tensors are specified by the same set of three two-dimensional matrices M. Taking on them appropriately, one can simultaneously solve the Maxwell equations in the closed form and retrieve the material parameters.…”

“…It is important that the Maxwell equations for the waves in stratified media can be solved in the similar manner in Cartesian [33], cylindrical [34], and spherical [35] coordinate systems. Such a unified approach may be applied not only in the way of slicing inhomogeneous medium into the set of thin homogeneous layers, as it was done in Ref.…”

Mie scattering of Laguerre-Gaussian beams: Photonic nanojets and near-field optical vortices

“…The specific form of the expansions is also known as the T -matrix ansatz that has been widely used in the related problem of light scattering by nonspherical particles [5,8,9]. More recently this strategy has been successfully applied to optically anisotropic particles [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18].…”