Mie Scattering with 3D Angular Spectrum Method

TL;DR

This paper introduces a 3D angular spectrum method for defining beam shape coefficients in Mie scattering, enabling flexible source placement and accurate modeling of arbitrary incident beams in electromagnetic simulations.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel 3D angular spectrum approach that simplifies incident beam modeling in Mie scattering, overcoming limitations of existing methods and supporting arbitrary source placement.

Findings

Achieved high accuracy in spherical scattering simulations.

Demonstrated flexibility in source placement within the computational domain.

Validated the method through comparison with known resonance values.

Abstract

Mie theory is a powerful method to model electromagnetic scattering from a multilayered sphere. Usually, the incident beam is expanded to its vector spherical harmonic representation defined by beam shape coefficients, and the multilayer sphere scattering is obtained by the T-matrix method. However, obtaining the beam shape coefficients for arbitrarily shaped incident beams has limitations on source locations and requires different methods when the incident beam is defined inside or outside the computational domain or at the scatterer surface. We propose a 3D angular spectrum method for defining beam shape coefficients from arbitrary source field distributions. This method enables the placement of the sources freely within the computational domain without singularities, allowing flexibility in beam design. We demonstrate incident field synthesis and spherical scattering by comparing morphology-dependent resonances to known values, achieving excellent matching and high accuracy. Additionally, we present mathematical proof to support our proposal. The proposed method has significant benefits for optical systems and inverse beam design. It allows for the analysis of electromagnetic forward/backward propagation between optical elements and spherical targets using a single method. It is also valuable for optical force beam design and analysis.