Backscattered polarization patterns determined by conservation of angular momentum
JOSA A, Vol. 25, Issue 2, pp. 431-436 (2008)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.25.000431
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Abstract
It is demonstrated that the occurence of backscattered polarization patterns relates to the conservation of angular momentum of light. Using the geometrical phase formalism in the spin space, we develop a model where the helicity-maintaining and the helicity-flipping multiple-scattering processes can be accounted for. The model explains practically all the symmetries present in the spatially resolved Mueller matrices.
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OCIS Codes
(260.5430) Physical optics : Polarization
(290.0290) Scattering : Scattering
ToC Category:
Scattering
History
Original Manuscript: June 19, 2007
Revised Manuscript: October 16, 2007
Manuscript Accepted: November 14, 2007
Published: January 28, 2008
Citation
Chaim Schwartz and Aristide Dogariu, "Backscattered polarization patterns determined by conservation of angular momentum," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 25, 431-436 (2008)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/josaa/abstract.cfm?URI=josaa-25-2-431
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