In this study, a method was presented to accurately obtain the extinction characteristics of the non-spherical biological particle aggregates. Based on the multi-sphere particle model of non-spherical particles, a randomly oriented aggregation model was firstly built to construct the aggregates. The discrete-dipole approximation method was used to calculate the extinction characteristics of aggregates in the 3–14 µm waveband. The average mass extinction coefficients of three materials are
Guolong Chen, Youlin Gu, Yihua Hu, Fanhao Meng, Wanying Ding, Xi Zhang, "Analysis of extinction characteristics of non-spherical biological particle aggregates [Invited]," Chin. Opt. Lett. 21, 090003 (2023)