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

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 …

Among the many works of Arthur Ashkin, many have been devoted to optical tweezers,
optical levitation and optical manipulation of macroscopic particles (“macroscopic” being …

The interaction of light with time-varying materials offers intriguing opportunities for
controlling light scattering and wavefront manipulation, thereby unlocking fascinating …

In aerosol science today light scattering simulations are regarded as an indispensable tool
to develop new particle characterization techniques or in solving inverse light scattering …

During the year 2008, we have been commemorating, in several places, the hundredth
anniversary of the famous 1908-paper by Mie describing the interaction between an …

A rigorous theory is developed to predict the radiation pressure force (RPF) exerted on a
spheroid by an arbitrarily oriented and located shaped beam. Analytical expressions of RPF …

The expression “generalized Lorenz–Mie theories”(GLMTs) is used to generically denote a
set of lightscattering theories describing the interaction between an illuminating …

In the field of electromagnetic wave interaction with a macroscopic particle, the numerical
computation methods can be classified into two main categories. The first category consists …

Within the framework of generalized Lorenz–Mie theory, the properties of three-dimensional
photonic jets emerging from spheroidal particles illuminated by a focused Gaussian beam …