Gaussian beam scattering from arbitrarily shaped objects with rough surfaces

Abstract

The scattered field of Gaussian beam scattering from arbitrarily shaped dielectric objects with rough surfaces is investigated for optical and infrared frequencies by using the plane wave spectrum method and the Kirchhoff approximation, and the formulae for the coherent and incoherent scattering cross sections are obtained theoretically based on geometrical optics and tangent plane approximations. The infrared laser scattering cross sections of a rough sphere are calculated at 1.06 μm, and the influence of the beam size is analysed numerically. It is shown that when the beam size is much larger than the size of the object, the results in this paper will be close to those of an incident plane wave.     

Gaussian beam scattering from arbitrarily shaped objects with rough surfaces

The scattered field of Gaussian beam scattering from arbitrarily shaped dielectric objects with rough surfaces is investigated for optical and infrared frequencies by using the plane wave spectrum method and the Kirchhoff approximation, and the formulae for the coherent and incoherent scattering cross sections are obtained theoretically based on geometrical optics and tangent plane approximations. The infrared laser scattering cross sections of a rough sphere are calculated at 1.06 μm, and the influence of the beam size is analysed numerically. It is shown that when the beam size is much larger than the size of the object, the results in this paper will be close to those of an incident plane wave.     

Scattering of shaped beam by an arbitrarily oriented spheroid having layers with non-confocal boundaries

An approach to express an incident shaped beam with respect to an arbitrarily oriented spheroidal particle having layers with non-confocal boundaries is presented. To overcome the difficulty of non-confocal boundary conditions connected with different spheroidal coordinate systems, a theoretical procedure is developed to deal with the non-confocal boundary conditions by virtue of a transformation for vector wave functions. The unknown coefficients of scattered and internal electromagnetic fields are determined by solving a system of linear equations derived from the boundary conditions and relations between the spheroidal vector wave functions and spherical ones. Numerical results of the normalized scattering cross section for a two-layered non-confocal prolate spheroid are evaluated. PACS 42.25.Fx; 42.25.Bs     

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Gaussian beam diffraction in weakly anisotropic inhomogeneous media

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Scattering of a Gaussian electromagnetic beam by a thin semiconducting cylinder

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Scattering of a Gaussian beam by an anisotropically coated circular cylinder

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Optical trapping of metallic particles by a fixed Gaussian beam

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Heterogeneous combustion of a pair of interacting particles with an arbitrarily shaped surface

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Scattering of Gaussian beam by a spherical particle with a spheroidal inclusion

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