Arthur Ashkin was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of optical
tweezers. Since their first publication in 1986, optical tweezers have been used as a tool to …

Light pollution is a novel environmental problem whose extent and severity are rapidly
increasing. Among other concerns, it threatens global biodiversity, nocturnal animal …

We present a computer code for calculating near-and far-field electromagnetic properties of
multilayered spheres. STRATIFY is a one-of-a-kind open-source package that allows for …

Collective lattice resonances in disordered 2D arrays of spherical Si nanoparticles (NPs)
have been thoroughly studied within the framework of the coupled dipole approximation …

The finite-element method (FEM) is increasingly used as a numerical tool to support
experimental and theoretical studies of the optical properties of nanoparticles, in contexts …

Photonic nanojets have been brought into attention ten years ago for potential application in
ultramicroscopy, because of its sub-wavelength resolution that can enhance detection and …

Abstract Properties of photonic jets (PJs) generated by a micro-sized particle depend not
only on the parameters of the particle, but also on the illumination conditions of the incident …

The convergence behavior of the T-matrix method as calculated by the extended boundary
condition method (EBCM) is studied, in the case of light scattering by spheroidal particles …

Photonic jets (PJs) formed on the shadow side of micro-sized dielectric spheres excited by
focused Gaussian beams are investigated within the framework of the generalized Lorenz …

We obtain exact analytic expressions for (i) the electromagnetic energy radial density within
and outside a multilayered sphere and (ii) the total electromagnetic energy stored within its …