Two-particle characterization by pulse induced and time resolved Mie scattering

With this numerical investigation we demonstrate the determining of particle size and particle distance for a two-particle system by time resolved Mie scattering. The optical interaction of the fs-laser pulse with the particle configuration produces a sequence of scattered light signals on the femtosecond time scale. The temporal differences between these signals represent typical dimensions of the particle system. The different ray tracks of the specific scattering orders, which are the reason of the temporal behaviour, have been verified by models of geometric optics. We have simulated the Mie scattered light by an algorithm for multi-particle scattering. For all examples the detector was positioned in the back scattering region at a scattering angle of θ=150°.