Light absorption by aerosols contributes to solar radiative forcing through absorption of solar
radiation and heating of the absorbing aerosol layer. Besides the direct radiative effect, the …

In optical particle characterisation and aerosol science today light scattering simulations are
regarded as an indispensable tool to develop new particle characterisation techniques or in …

For a physicist, and more generally for a scientist, one of the pleasures in everyday life is to
detect exemplifying manifestations and avatars of the topic he is working on. Why do small …

An improved recurrence algorithm to calculate the scattering field of a multilayered sphere is
developed. The internal and external electromagnetic fields are expressed as a …

Mie scattering is an important tool for diagnosing microparticles or aerosol particles in
technical or natural environments. Mie theory is restricted to spherical, homogeneous …

The description of electromagnetic arbitrary shaped beams (eg laser beams) under
expanded forms requires the evaluation of expansion coefficients known as beam shape …

The computer implementation of the algorithm for the calculation of electromagnetic
radiation scattering by a multilayered sphere developed by Yang, is presented. It has been …

The new Mie-scattering calculation is a robust and efficient algorithm used to compute light
scattering from spheres. It calculates the ratio between Riccati-Bessel functions instead of …

Since their development in the 1980s, optical tweezers have become a widely used and
versatile tool in many fields. Outstanding applications include the quantitative measurement …

A so-called localized approximation, allowing one to speed up the evaluation of beam
shape coefficients in the generalized Lorenz–Mie theory for spheres, has been previously …