Mie resonance in dielectric droplets with internal disorder - art. no. 033814

We consider the influence of refractive index fluctuations (due to randomly distributed inclusions inside a dielectric spherical droplet) on the. line shapes of scattering Mie resonances. The significant difference in the spa tial distributions of the mode functions participating in the process does not allow one to employ the standard statistical ensembles used in random m atrix theory. We propose to model the system by a simplified random ensembl e which gives a very good agreement with the available experimental data, a nd we predict a type of line shape for narrow scattering resonances.