Light-matter interactions involving structured optical field (SOF) and meta-atoms have been recently investigated. SOF allows a large degree-of-freedom in the interaction, and includes vortex beams with helical wavefront, cylindrical vector beams with spatially inhomogeneous polarization, and non-diffracting Bessel beams. Meta-atoms even further extend the degree-of-freedom. Therefore, accurate and efficient description of both SOFs and arbitrary meta-atoms is required to study this problem, for which multipole approach can be a versatile framework. Here, we discuss description of SOFs and their implementation into multipole approach, and demonstrate dichroisms involving chiral meta-atoms and SOFs with spatially inhomogeneous phase and polarization distributions.
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