Evolution of circular and linear polarization in scattering environments

JD Van der Laan, JB Wright, DA Scrymgeour… - Optics …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
This work quantifies the polarization persistence and memory of circularly polarized light in
forward-scattering and isotropic (Rayleigh regime) environments; and for the first time …

Poincare vector correlations to estimate polarization dynamics in the laser speckle

S Chandra, R Singh, RK Singh - Physica Scripta, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a new method to measure the spatial
polarization dynamics of laser speckles. This is realized by using the concept of the …

Investigating the depolarization property of skin tissue by degree of polarization uniformity contrast using polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography

X Zhou, S Maloufi, DC Louie, N Zhang, Q Liu… - Biomedical optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
The depolarization property of skin has been found to be important for skin cancer detection.
Previous techniques based on light polarization lack the capability of depth differentiation …

Isotropically polarized speckle patterns

MK Schmidt, J Aizpurua, X Zambrana-Puyalto… - Physical Review Letters, 2015 - APS
The polarization of the light scattered by an optically dense and random solution of dielectric
nanoparticles shows peculiar properties when the scatterers exhibit strong electric and …

Polarimetric properties of diffuse scattering from building walls: Experimental parameterization of a ray-tracing model

EM Vitucci, F Mani, V Degli-Esposti… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dense multipath components may represent an important part of wireless transmission
channels, yet little is known about their physical properties. For this reason, we parameterize …

Characterization of spatial polarization fluctuations in scattered field

RK Singh, DN Naik, H Itou, Y Miyamoto… - Journal of …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We extend the concept of Poincare vector correlations for the characterization of spatial
polarization fluctuations of scattered fields. Spatial (rather than temporal) dynamics of …

Shannon entropy and degree of polarization of a speckle pattern

A Roy - Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
The dependence of the Shannon entropy (SE) of a speckle pattern on the degree of
polarization (DoP) of the pattern is investigated both experimentally and numerically. The …

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 …

Depolarization synthesis: understanding the optics of Mueller matrix depolarization

SR Cloude - JOSA A, 2013 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we consider the forward problem in depolarization by optical systems. That is,
we seek a compact parameterization that allows us to take an arbitrary “pure” optical system …

Analysis of coherent laser echo characteristics back scattered from rough Gaussian target

X Dong, Y Hu, S Xu - Optik, 2022 - Elsevier
The surface property of rough target can cause the decoherence and depolarization effects,
which is among the main limiting factors in heterodyne detection. In the decoherence …