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Vector Bessel beams: general classification and scattering simulations

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posted on 2023-01-12, 15:23 authored by Stefania A. Glukhova, Maxim A. Yurkin
Apart from a lot of fundamental interest, vector Bessel beams are widely used in optical manipulation, material processing, and imaging. However, the existing description of such beams remains fragmentary, especially when their scattering by small particles is considered. We propose a new general classification of all existing vortex Bessel beam types in an isotropic medium based on the superposition of transverse Hertz vector potentials. This theoretical framework contains duality and coordinate rotations as elementary matrix operations and naturally describes all relations between various beam types. This leads to various bases for Bessel beams and uncovers the novel beam type with circularly symmetric energy density. We also discuss quadratic functionals of the fields (such as the energy density and Poynting vector) and derive orthogonality relations between various beam types. Altogether, it provides a comprehensive reference of all properties of Bessel beams that may be relevant for applications. Next we generalize the formalism of the Mueller scattering matrices to arbitrary Bessel beams accounting for their vorticity. Finally, we implement these beams in the ADDA code - an open-source parallel implementation of the discrete dipole approximation. This enables easy and efficient simulation of Bessel-beams scattering by particles with arbitrary shape and internal structure.

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