ИСТИНА

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. The author acknowledges the financial support of the Russian Science Foundation (Project No. 21-12-00151).