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 …

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 …

The rainbow patterns of oblate spheroidal drops have been observed in experiments nearly
forty years ago [Nature312, 529 (1984) 10.1038/312529a0]. However, the prediction for …

To describe the interaction of a shaped beam with a particle, the well-known generalized
Lorenz–Mie theory (GLMT) has been developed in the past three decades. However …

A vectorial complex ray model is introduced to describe the scattering of a smooth surface
object of arbitrary shape. In this model, all waves are considered as vectorial complex rays …

EM Gaussian beams are the most celebrated and used kind of laser beams. Their
description beyond paraxial regimes has a long and venerable history, culminating may be …

The scattering patterns near the primary rainbow of oblate drops are simulated by extending
the vectorial complex ray model (VCRM)[Opt. Lett. 36, 370 (2011) OPLEDP0146 …

This paper analyzes various phenomena in modeling the light-scattering properties of large
spherical bubbles in the context of geometrical and physical optics approximations. Among …

The Debye series is developed for electromagnetic scattering by a spheroid in order to
decompose the far-zone fields into various physical processes. The geometrical rainbow …

The geometrical-optics approximation of light scattering by a transparent or absorbing
spherical particle is extended from plane wave to Gaussian beam incidence. The formulas …