An. Lebedev et al., Optical extinction by spherical particles in an absorbing medium: Application to composite absorbing films, EUR PHY J D, 6(3), 1999, pp. 365-373
The optical extinction rate of the particle embedded in an absorbing host i
s defined as a rate of local energy losses caused by the particle (absorpti
on in the particle volume and scattering by the particle-matrix interface)
referenced to the matrix background. The rate of scattering and absorption
by the particle is calculated via integration of the appropriate Poynting v
ectors over the particle surface. The explicit expressions for the optical,
extinction and scattering Fates by the spherical particle are derived. A h
euristic approach to relate the local energy losses to the macroscopic exti
nction coefficient of the thin absorbing film with uniformly distributed em
bedded particles is presented. The method is applied to calculate the optic
al response of iron clusters embedded in a fullerite film. The calculated o
ptical extinction coefficient of the system shows a good agreement with the
overall features of experimentally obtained spectra.