ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING FROM A MULTILAYERED SPHERE LOCATED IN AN ARBITRARY BEAM

A solution is given for the problem of scattering of an arbitrary shap ed beam by a multilayered sphere. Starting from Bromwich potentials an d using the appropriate boundary conditions, we give expressions for t he external and the internal fields. It is shown that the scattering c oefficients can be generated from those established for a plane-wave i llumination. Some numerical results that describe the scattering patte rns and the radiation-pressure behavior when an incident Gaussian beam or a plane wave impinges on a multilayered sphere are presented. (C) 1995 Optical Society of America