Abstract

Recently, there has been a great deal of interest in light scattered by host droplets containing inclusions.^1-5 One characteristic of such a system is a fluctuation in the scattered intensity. The nature of these fluctuations is not clear. They have been attributed to inclusions passing through regions of strong and weak electric fields within the host, like the hot-spot,¹ and also to interference of the individual inclusions contained within the host droplet.^4,5 The latter attributions of the scatter were used in previous photon-correlation analyses to determine the characteristics of the inclusions. However, the results of these analyses were not conclusive. We develop a novel technique for analyzing the scattering system in which we examine correlations between the signals at two scattering angles.

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