posted on 2023-11-30, 19:37authored byJorge Olmos-Trigo, Diego R. Abujetas, Cristina Sanz-Fernández, Nuno de Sousa, José A. Sánchez-Gil, Juan José Sáenz
Controlling the electromagnetic helicity and directionality of the light scattered by dielectric particles is paramount to a variety of phenomenology of interest in all-dielectric optics and photonics. In this Letter, we show that the conservation of the electromagnetic helicity in the scattering by high-index dielectric Mie spheres can be used as a probe of pure-multipolar spectral regions, particularly, of dipolar nature, beyond its presumed spectral interval. This finding reveals that the dipolar behavior is not necessarily limited to small particles, in striking contrast to the current state of the art. Interestingly, we demonstrate that the optimum forward light scattering condition, predicted for a particular nano-sphere in the limit of small particle, is fulfilled in fact at a fixed x size parameter for an infinite number of refractive indexes
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