Generalized Lorenz-mie Theories

This book deals with generalized Lorenz-Mie theories when the illuminating beam is an electromagnetic arbitrary shaped beam, relying on the method of separation of variables.

The new edition contains an additional chapter taking care of new advances that have been accomplished both on the fundamental point of view and on applications. Many of the new results are of utmost importance for the reader.

The book puts a particular emphasis on the case of the homogeneous sphere, but other regular particles are considered too. It provides an extensive discussion of the methods available to the evaluation of beam shape coefficients describing the illuminating beam. The book also features applications concerning many fields such as optical particle sizing and, more generally, optical particle characterization, morphology-dependent resonances, or mechanical effects of light for optical trapping, optical tweezers and optical stretchers. Furthermore, various computer programs relevant to the contents of the book are provided.

Gerard Gouesbet is currently emeritus professor at INSA where he pursues his research in electromagnetism, as well as, in a second life, running commitments in philosophy and theology.

Until 2007, he was active as a researcher at the CNRS in France, an associate professor in Rouen University, a professor at the INSCIR thereafter at the INSA of Rouen, France. As a teacher he hold courses in theoretical physics (special and general relativity, quantum mechanics) as well as fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, turbulence theory, theory of dynamical systems, chaos theory.
Prof. Gouesbet is founder of LESP (laboratory of electromagnetics and systems with particles), a laboratory of INSA and a component of the CNRS laboratory Coria, and headed it for more than 20 years.

Gerard?Grehan is currently Research director at?Professeur at?LESP (laboratory of electromagnetics and systems with particles), a laboratory of INSA and a component of the CNRS laboratory Coria