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Mechanism and symmetry properties of depolarization in weak scattering of light

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Abstract

The mechanism and some symmetry properties of depolarization upon weak scattering of light from a class of random media were studied theoretically. Departing from the angular distribution of the degree of polarization, our derivations showed the mechanism that induces the change of polarization can be split into two parts of different nature. One is the vectorial effect that redistributes the original light components, and the other is the interaction effect of the medium that modulates the correlation properties of the incident field. We also showed that there is dependence of the angular distribution on the incident polarization state; i.e., the angular pattern and its symmetry depend on both the orientation and ellipticity of the incident polarization. Random light was analyzed in the space–frequency domain.

©2012 Optical Society of America

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