Abstract
It was recently shown that, when light is scattered from a random medium whose response function (e.g., the dielectric susceptibility) has appropriate correlation properties, the spectrum of the scattered light may be frequency shifted with respect to the spectrum of the incident light.1,2 In general the relative frequency shifts produced by this mechanism will be different for different spectral lines. We show that under certain circumstances the relative shifts generated by scattering from appropriately correlated space-time fluctuations may become frequency independent and may be arbitrarily large. This scattering mechanism then imitates the Doppler effect, even though the source, the scattering medium, and the observer are at relative rest with respect to each other.
© 1989 Optical Society of America
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