THEME: "Fostering Advancements in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology"
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Title: New Aspects of Resonant Light Scattering by Small Particles
MT received his MS from Lomonosov
Moscow State University in 1973, PhD from Moscow Institute of Physics and
Technology in 1976, and Dr. of Sci. (habilitation) from Landau Institute in
1985. He received numerous national and international awards: Leninsky Komsomol
Prize (1979); COE Professorship, the University of Tokyo, (2006, 2008) and
Kyushu University (2007), Japan; Honorary PhD, Yamaguchi University, Japan
(2016), etc. Now he heads a laboratory at Lomonosov Moscow State University.
His field is theoretical and mathematical physics. Presently, his interest lies
in subwavelength optics. He is the author of several books, book chapters,
review articles, and more than 100 research papers
Resonant light scattering by nanoparticles provides a unique opportunity to concentrate a high-amplitude electromagnetic field in a subwavelength area of space as well as to tailor and control its pattern. In addition to purely academic interest, this is extremely important for numerous applications ranging from medicine and biology to telecommunication and data processing. Despite more than a hundred years of extensive study, the problem is still far from completion. In this contribution, the author presents a review of his results in this field. In many cases, despite the smallness of the scattering particles, their light scattering has very little in common with the conventional Rayleigh case. New, counterintuitive effects, especially those related to the violation of the quasi-static description of the scattering occurring at the action of (ultra)short laser pulses, are pointed out and inspected, discussed, and classified .