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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume 46 Number 8, August 1998

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Increasing the Performance of the Coupled-Dipole Approximation: A Spectral Approach

Nicolas B. Piller, Student Member, IEEE, and Olivier J. F. Martin

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Abstract:

We show that it is possible to increase the performance of the coupled-dipole approximation (CDA) for scattering by using concepts from the sampling theory. In standard CDA, the source in each discretized cell is represented by a point dipole and the corresponding scattered field given by Green's tensor. In the present approach, the source has a certain spatial extension, and the corresponding Green's tensor must be redefined. We derive these so-called filtered Green's tensors for one-dimensional (1-D), two-dimensional (2-D), and three-dimensional (3-D) systems, which forms the basis of our new scheme: the filtered coupled-dipole technique (FCD). By reducing the aliasing phenomena related to the discretization of the scatterer, we obtain with FCD a more accurate description of the original scatterer. The convergence and accuracy of FCD is assessed for 1-D, 2-D, and 3-D systems and compared to CDA results. In particular we show that, for a given discretization grid, the scattering cross section obtained with FCD is more accurate (to a factor of 100). Furthermore, the computational effort required by FCD is similar to that of CDA.

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