Morphology-dependent resonances of spherical droplets with numerous microscopic inclusions

作者:Mishchenko Michael I*; Liu Li; Mackowski Daniel W
来源:Optics Letters, 2014, 39(6): 1701-1704.
DOI:10.1364/OL.39.001701

摘要

We use the recently extended superposition T-matrix method to study the behavior of a sharp Lorenz-Mie resonance upon filling a spherical micrometer-sized droplet with tens and hundreds of randomly positioned microscopic inclusions. We show that as the number of inclusions increases, the extinction cross-section peak and the sharp asymmetry-parameter minimum become suppressed, widen, and move toward smaller droplet size parameters, while ratios of diagonal elements of the scattering matrix exhibit sharp angular features indicative of a distinctly nonspherical particle. Our results highlight the limitedness of the concept of an effective refractive index of an inhomogeneous spherical particle.

  • 出版日期2014-3-15