Decomposition of scattered electromagnetic fields into vector spherical wave functions on surfaces with general shapes

Abstract

Decomposing the field scattered by an object into vector spherical harmonics (VSH) is the prime task when discussing its optical properties on more analytical grounds. Thus far, it was frequently required in the decomposition that the scattered field is available on a spherical surface enclosing the scatterer; being with that adapted to the spatial dependency of the VSHs but being rather incompatible with many numerical solvers. To mitigate this problem, we propose an orthogonal expression for the decomposition that holds for any surface that encloses the scatterer, independently of its shape. We also show that the orthogonal relations remain unchanged when the radiative VSH used for the expansion of the scattered field are substituted by the VSH used for the expansion of the illumination as test functions. This is a key factor for the numerical stability of our decomposition. As example, we use a finite-element based solver to compute the multipole response of a nanorod illuminated by a plane wave and study its convergence properties.

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