Publications related to Codes for electromagnetic scattering by spheres

Frequency and time domains interactions in nanophotonics

In this thesis, we discuss the problems of scattering and optical manipulation related to nanosystems of different complexities. The multipolar decomposition method is used to represent scattering processes in nanosystems as a series of elementary excitati ...

EPFL2023

Gigahertz free-space electro-optic modulators based on Mie resonances

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Sydney Rebecca Mason

Electro-optic modulators are essential for sensing, metrology and telecommunications. Most target fiber applications. Instead, metasurface-based architectures that modulate free-space light at gigahertz (GHz) speeds can boost flat optics technology by micr ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Advances and applications of nanophotonic biosensors

Hatice Altug

This Review discusses the progresses in label-free nanophotonic biosensors based on photonic or dielectric surfaces and metasurfaces and highlights the challenges and benefits of their applications in the fields of public health, well-being and biosafety. ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Asymmetric Metal-Dielectric Metacylinders and Their Potential Applications From Engineering Scattering Patterns to Spatial Optical Signal Processing

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Ali Momeni, Mahdi Safari

We propose a bianisotropic hybrid metal-dielectric structure comprising dielectric and metallic cylindrical wedges wherein the composite metacylinder enables advanced control of electric, magnetic, and magnetoelectric resonances. We establish a theoretical ...

American Physical Society (APS)2021

Numerical characterization and engineering of transport in morphologically complex heterogeneous media

Xiaoyu Dai

A multi-scale numerical methodology for the assessment of radiation and optical characteristics of complex structured soot-contaminated snow layers was investigated first. The methodology accounted for the exact morphology at the various scales and utilize ...

EPFL2021

System and method for projecting images through scattering media

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Babak Rahmani

The invention discloses a system (1) and method to guide light through a scattering medium (4) and project images on a screen (5) placed after the medium (4). Many of the shortcomings of previous approaches for guiding light through scattering medium (4) h ...

2020

Optical characterization of multi-scale morphologically complex heterogeneous media – Application to snow with soot impurities

Sophia Haussener, Xiaoyu Dai

A multi-scale methodology for the radiative transfer analysis of heterogeneous media composed of morphologically-complex components on two distinct scales is presented. The methodology incorporates the exact morphology at the various scales and utilizes vo ...

Elsevier2018

An isogeometric boundary element method for electromagnetic scattering with compatible B-spline discretizations

Rafael Vazquez Hernandez

We outline the construction of compatible B-splines on 3D surfaces that satisfy the continuity requirements for electromagnetic scattering analysis with the boundary element method (method of moments). Our approach makes use of Non-Uniform Rational B-splin ...

2018

Design rules for customizable optical materials based on nanocomposites

Toralf Scharf, Friedrich Daniel Werdehausen

Nanocomposites with tailored optical properties can provide a new degree of freedom for optical design. However, despite their potential these materials remain unused in bulk optical applications. Here we investigate the conditions under which they can be ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2018

Learning Tomography Assessed Using Mie Theory

Michaël Unser, Demetri Psaltis, Joowon Lim

In optical diffraction tomography, the multiply scattered field is a nonlinear function of the refractive index (RI) of the object. The Rytov method relies on a single-scattering propagation model and is commonly used to reconstruct images. Recently, a rec ...

American Physical Society (APS)2018

Imaging complex objects using learning tomography

Michaël Unser, Demetri Psaltis, Alexandre Goy, Joowon Lim, Morteza Hasani Shoreh

Optical diffraction tomography (ODT) can be described using the scattering process through an inhomogeneous media. An inherent nonlinearity exists relating the scattering medium and the scattered field due to multiple scattering. Multiple scattering is oft ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2018

Optical forces and torques on realistic plasmonic nanostructures: a surface integral approach

Olivier Martin, Jérémy Butet

We develop a novel formalism to calculate the optical forces and torques on complex and realistic nanostructures by combining the surface integral equation (SIE) technique with Maxwell's stress tensor. The optical force is calculated directly on the scatte ...

Optical Soc Amer2014

Increasing the imaging capabilities of multimode fibers by exploiting the properties of highly scattering media

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Salma Farahi

We present a design that exploits the focusing properties of scattering media to increase the resolution and the working distance of multimode fiber (MMF)-based imaging devices. Placing a highly scattering medium in front of the distal tip of the MMF enabl ...

Optical Society of America2013

Absolute absorption cross sections of ligand-free colloidal germanium nanocrystals

Extinction spectra of colloidal germanium nanocrystals suspended in benzonitrile without the use of ligands were measured, and absolute absorption cross sections are reported. Comparison to cross sections calculated using the Mie solution to Maxwell's equa ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2012

Efficient algorithms for computing Sommerfeld integral tails

Juan Ramon Mosig, Ruzica Golubovic, Athanasios Polymeridis

Sommerfeld-integrals (SIs) are ubiquitous in the analysis of problems involving antennas and scatterers embedded in planar multilayered media. It is well known that the oscillating and slowly decaying nature of their integrands makes the numerical evaluati ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

Core-Shell GaAs Nanowire p-n Junctions from Growth to Photovoltaic and Optoelectronic Applications

Carlo Colombo

Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) are filamentary crystals with the diameter ranging from few tens up to few hundreds of nanometers. In the last 15 years, they have been intensively studied for the prospectives that their unique quasi-one dimensional shape off ...

EPFL2012

Ab initio engineering of Fano resonances

Olivier Martin, Benjamin Gallinet

In this work, we pave the route towards the engineering of strong and spectrally sharp Fano resonances in plasmonic nanostructures and derive analytical formulas for their line shape as a function of their electromagnetic response. Contrary to the original ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering, Po Box 10, Bellingham, Wa 98227-0010 Usa2011

Accurate and versatile modeling of electromagnetic scattering on periodic nanostructures with a surface integral approach

Olivier Martin, Benjamin Gallinet, Andreas Kern

A surface integral formulation for light scattering on periodic structures is presented. Electric and magnetic field equations are derived on the scatterers' surfaces in the unit cell with periodic boundary conditions. The solution is calculated with the m ...

2010

Electromagnetic Scattering of Finite and Infinite 3D Lattices in Polarizable Backgrounds

Olivier Martin, Benjamin Gallinet

A novel method is elaborated for the electromagnetic scattering from periodical arrays of scatterers embedded in a polarizable background. A dyadic periodic Green's function is introduced to calculate the scattered electric field in a lattice of dielectric ...

Amer Inst Physics, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Ste 1No1 D, Melville, Ny 11747-4501 Usa2009

A New Closed-Form Solution to Light Scattering by Spherical Nanoshells

Juan Ramon Mosig, Olivier Martin

Light or electromagnetic wave scattered by a single sphere or a coated sphere has been considered as a classic Mie theory. There have been some further extensions that were made further based on the Mie theory. Recently, a closed-form analytical model of t ...

2009