Martin, Girard, and Dereux Reply:

Martin, Girard, and Dereux Reply: The sentence of our Letter [1] that Garcia and Nieto-Vesperinas take out of its context [2] appeared in the discussion of Fig. 1, where we presented the amplitude of the total scattered field. Therefore, by field, we were referring to total field amplitude, as is clear from the context of our Letter and the caption of Fig. 1. The remark (ii) made by Garcia and Nieto-Vesperinas shows that, for subwavelength scatterers of low symmetry, a self-consistent vectorial three-dimensional calculation such as that in Ref. [1] provides more insight into the scattered near-field than a two-dimensional scalar perturbative calculation (Refs. [7,8] in [2]). Indeed, the total field amplitude does not simply “resemble” [2] the object, but can reproduce its shape or parts of its outline, depending on the incident polarization [3,4].