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Hao Zhang1, Pengfei Zhu, Yuchen Xu
1Key Lab for Micro and Nanophotonic Structures (Ministry of Education), Department of Optical Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Abstract:
We study the effective index of random media composed of two-layered spheres by using the energy-density coherent potential approximation method. As expected from the Ewald-Oseen extinction theorem, in the long-wavelength limit, the optical properties of a random medium composed of two-layered spheres are identical to those of a random medium composed of the corresponding pure spheres, while in the Mie-scattering region, the single-scattering resonances lead to an overall shift of the effective refractive index with the modified volume fraction.
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