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Abstract:
A hybrid method for light scattering by an arbitrary particle using the scattering-order formulation of the coupled dipole method is described. An arbitrary particle is divided into two or more segments, and the field scattered by the particle is obtained from the fields scattered by each segment together with the field due to interactions among segments. An exact or approximate theory is used to calculate the scattered field from each segment, and interactions are included using the scattering-order formulation of the coupled dipole method. Calculations show that for certain particles, this hybrid approach can require fewer computations and give more accurate results than the scattering-order method.
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