Depolarization of backscattered linearly polarized light

LF Rojas-Ochoa, D Lacoste, R Lenke… - JOSA A, 2004 - opg.optica.org
We formulate a quantitative description of backscattered linearly polarized light with an
extended photon diffusion formalism taking explicitly into account the scattering anisotropy …

Depolarization coefficients of light in multiply scattering media

EE Gorodnichev, AI Kuzovlev, DB Rogozkin - Physical Review E, 2014 - APS
The depolarization coefficients are calculated for multiply scattered linearly and circularly
polarized light. For a number of media (aqueous suspension of polystyrene particles, water …

Enpolarization of light by scattering media

J Sorrentini, M Zerrad, G Soriano, C Amra - Optics Express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
The polarization of a coherent depolarized incident light beam passing through a scattering
medium is investigated at the speckle scale. The polarization of the scattered far field at …

Light backscattering polarization patterns from turbid media: theory and experiment

MJ Raković, GW Kattawar, M Mehrűbeoğlu… - Applied …, 1999 - opg.optica.org
We present both experimental measurements and Monte-Carlo-based simulations of the
diffusely backscattered intensity patterns that arise from illuminating a turbid medium with a …

Photon pathlength distribution from polarized backscattering in random media

M Dogariu, T Asakura - Optical Engineering, 1996 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Linearly polarized light backscattered from weakly scattering slabs in the cross-polarized
channel manifests a symmetrical pattern. The origin and the properties of the pattern are …

Approximate theory of linearly polarized light propagation through a scattering medium

EP Zege, LI Chaikovskaya - Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and …, 2000 - Elsevier
This work continues developing the analytical theory of polarized light transfer through
scattering media and simplification of the Green's matrix of the problem with splitting the …

Description and time reduction of a Monte Carlo code to simulate propagation of polarized light through scattering media

F Jaillon, H Saint-Jalmes - Applied Optics, 2003 - opg.optica.org
Propagation of polarized light through a scattering medium has been studied with a Monte
Carlo code to obtain polarized backscattered images. Studies of these backscattered …

Analytical cumulant solution of the vector radiative transfer equation investigates backscattering of circularly polarized light from turbid media

W Cai, X Ni, SK Gayen, RR Alfano - … Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2006 - APS
The backscattering of circularly polarized light pulses from an infinite uniform scattering
medium is studied as a function of helicity of the incident light and size of scatterers in the …

Three Monte Carlo programs of polarized light transport into scattering media: part I

JC Ramella-Roman, SA Prahl, SL Jacques - Optics Express, 2005 - opg.optica.org
Propagation of light into scattering media is a complex problem that can be modeled using
statistical methods such as Monte Carlo. Few Monte Carlo programs have so far included …

Exact solution for coherent backscattering of polarized light from a random medium of Rayleigh scatterers

VD Ozrin - Waves in random media, 1992 - iopscience.iop.org
We discuss a rigorous vectorial theory as a model to represent the enhanced backscattering
of polarized light from a random medium. The theory is based on the well known relation …