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The results of numerical modeling of the near field of light wave scattering (“photonic (nano)jet”—PNJ region) by radially symmetric nonabsorbing dielectric microparticles are presented. It is shown that the homogeneous silica microparticles of different spatial shape and orientation form PNJ of different sizes and amplitudes. Photonic nanojets from hemispheres are of high extent but moderate intensity. Use of microaxicons provides for a record increase in the PNJ length of the order of twenty wavelengths of the incident radiation.
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Original Russian Text © Yu.E. Geints, A.A. Zemlyanov, E.K. Panina, 2015, published in Optika Atmosfery i Okeana.
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Geints, Y.E., Zemlyanov, A.A. & Panina, E.K. Localized light jets from radially symmetric nonspherical dielectric microparticles. Atmos Ocean Opt 28, 436–440 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1024856015050048
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