{"title":"Scattering of an electromagnetic beam by a radially inhomogeneous sphere","authors":"E. Khaled, M. Salem","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.2000.838841","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A method to calculate the scattering intensities of a multilayered sphere or a radially inhomogeneous sphere is presented. The sphere is illuminated with an electromagnetic wave of an arbitrary spatial distribution. The radially inhomogeneous sphere is modeled by a multilayered sphere. The method uses the technique presented by Wu and Wang (1991) and by Johnson (see Appl. Opt., vol.35, p.3285-96, 1996) to calculate the scattering coefficients of a multilayered sphere and a method that represent an arbitrary incident beam in terms of vector spherical harmonics (VSH). The presented method is used to calculate the backscattered and angular scattering intensities of a multilayered and a radially inhomogeneous spheres illuminated with a Gaussian beam. The method is capable of calculating the scattered field of any scatterer as long as its scattering coefficients are known. Also the method can be used for a tightly focused incident beam. The beam can be focused to an arbitrary position with respect to the sphere.","PeriodicalId":211510,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Radio Science Conference. 17th NRSC'2000 (IEEE Cat. No.00EX396)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2000-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Radio Science Conference. 17th NRSC'2000 (IEEE Cat. No.00EX396)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.2000.838841","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A method to calculate the scattering intensities of a multilayered sphere or a radially inhomogeneous sphere is presented. The sphere is illuminated with an electromagnetic wave of an arbitrary spatial distribution. The radially inhomogeneous sphere is modeled by a multilayered sphere. The method uses the technique presented by Wu and Wang (1991) and by Johnson (see Appl. Opt., vol.35, p.3285-96, 1996) to calculate the scattering coefficients of a multilayered sphere and a method that represent an arbitrary incident beam in terms of vector spherical harmonics (VSH). The presented method is used to calculate the backscattered and angular scattering intensities of a multilayered and a radially inhomogeneous spheres illuminated with a Gaussian beam. The method is capable of calculating the scattered field of any scatterer as long as its scattering coefficients are known. Also the method can be used for a tightly focused incident beam. The beam can be focused to an arbitrary position with respect to the sphere.