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All-dielectric resonant nanophotonics lies at the heart of modern optics and nanotechnology due to the unique possibilities to control scattering of light from high-index dielectric nanoparticles and metasurfaces. One of the important…
The Kerker effect arises from the interference between electric and magnetic multipoles, enabling directional light scattering in nanophotonics. However, conventional dielectric and plasmonic nanoparticles can only act as Kerker sources in…
We study unidirectional transverse scattering in a two-dimensional acoustic dimer composed of two isotropic subwavelength scatterers. Using a coupled multipole model, we show that inter-particle coupling enables effective monopole-dipole…
Tunable directional scattering is of paramount importance for operation of antennas, routing of light, and design of topologically protected optical states. For visible light scattered on a nanoparticle the directionality could be provided…
As the characteristic feature of generalized Kerker effect in Mie theory, directional scattering elimination has been playing a pivotal role in nanophotonics and many other photonic disciplines, such as singular optics and topological…
We study scattering phenomena such as the Kerker effect, superscattering, and scattering dark states in a subwavelength atomic antenna consisting of atoms with only electric dipole transitions. We show that an atomic antenna can exhibit…
Transverse Kerker effect is known by the directional scattering of an electromagnetic plane wave perpendicular to the propagation direction with nearly suppression of both forward and backward scattering. Compared with plane waves,…
Controlling the directionality of the acoustic scattering with single acoustic metaatoms has a key importance for reaching spatial routing of sound with acoustic metamaterials. In this paper, we present the experimental demonstration of the…
Scattering of light from an anisotropic source produces linear polarization in spectral lines and the continuum. In the outer layers of a stellar atmosphere the anisotropy of the radiation field is typically dominated by the radiation…
In this study we investigate the directional scattering of terahertz radiation by dielectric cylinders, focusing on the enhancement of directionality using incident radiation of complex-frequency. We explore the optimization of the second…
Harmonic generation in the scattered fields produced by a dielectric sphere coated with a time-varying conductive shell is studied using a Mie theory approach hybridized with conversion matrix methods. Analytic results are derived for plane…
High-refractive index dielectric nanoparticles may exhibit strong directional forward light scattering at visible and near-infrared wavelengths due to interference of simultaneously excited electric and magnetic dipole resonances. For a…
The nearly zero optical forward scattering and anti-dual conditions are usually associated to the so-called second Kerker condition, at which the electric and magnetic responses are phase-shifted by {\pi}. However, as we show, this…
All-dielectric nanophotonics opens a venue for a variety of novel phenomena and scattering regimes driven by unique optical effects in semiconductor and dielectric nanoresonators. Their peculiar optical signatures enabled by simultaneous…
In this work we study the scattering and transfer matrices for electric fields defined with respect to an angular spectrum of plane waves. For these matrices, we derive the constraints that are enforced by conservation of energy,…
We achieve unidirectional forward superscattering by multilayered spherical cavities which are effectively radially anisotropic. It is demonstrated that, relying on the large effective anisotropy, the electric and magnetic dipoles can be…
Interference is the cornerstone of Huygens source design for reshaping and controlling scattering patterns. The conventional underpinning principle, such as for the Kerker effect, is the interference of electric and magnetic dipole and…
High refractive index dielectric nanoparticles have provided a new platform for exotic light manipulation through the interference of multipole modes. The Kerker effect is one example of a Huygens source design. Rather than exploiting…
Line scattering polarization can be strongly affected by Rayleigh scattering by neutral hydrogen and Thompson scattering by free electrons. Often a continuum depolarization results, but the Doppler redistribution produced by the continuum…
Manipulation and engineering of light scattering by resonant nanostructures is one of the central problems in optics and photonics. In this work, we theoretically study the effect of suppressed back-scattering of dielectric nanoantenna. We…