Extending the applicability of the T-matrix method to light scattering by flat particles on a substrate via truncation of sommerfeld integrals

Autor: Dominik Theobald, Uli Lemmer, Yuri Eremin, Thomas Wriedt, Amos Egel, Guillaume Gomard
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 202:279-285
ISSN: 0022-4073
Popis: The simulation of light scattering by particles on a substrate with the $T$-matrix method relies on the expansion of the scattered field in spherical waves, followed by a plane wave expansion to allow the evaluation of the reflection from the substrate. In practice, the plane wave expansion (i.e., the Sommerfeld integrals) needs to be truncated at a maximal in-plane wavenumber $\kappa_\mathrm{max}$. An appropriate selection of $\kappa_\mathrm{max}$ is essential: counter-intuitively, the overall accuracy can degrade significantly if the integrals are truncated with a too large value. In this paper, we propose an empirical formula for the selection of $\kappa_\mathrm{max}$ and discuss its application using a number of example simulations with dielectric and metallic oblate spheroids on dielectric and metallic substrates. The computed differential scattering cross sections are compared to results obtained from the discrete-sources method.
Comment: Accepted manuscript. \copyright 2017. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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