Title

Time-domain depolarization of waves retroreflected from dense colloidal media

Authors

Authors

A. Dogariu; C. Kutsche; P. Likamwa; G. Boreman;B. Moudgil

Comments

Authors: contact us about adding a copy of your work at STARS@ucf.edu

Abbreviated Journal Title

Opt. Lett.

Keywords

SCATTERING MEDIUM; STOKES PARAMETERS; LIGHT; Optics

Abstract

We report on depolarization measurements of femtosecond pulses retroreflected from dense suspensions of silica microspheres with solid loads increasing from 5% to 54%. Backscattered pulse shapes compare well with predictions of the diffusion theory for all volume fractions, and the inferred values of the transport mean free path agree with independent measurements of enhanced backscattering. polarization decays exponentially with temporal rates that scale with the solid load. all solid loads, depolarization sets in for path lengths longer than approximately five transport mean free paths. (C) 1991 Optical Society of America.

Journal Title

Optics Letters

Volume

22

Issue/Number

9

Publication Date

1-1-1997

Document Type

Article

DOI Link

http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ol.22.000585

Language

English

First Page

585

Last Page

587

WOS Identifier

WOS:A1997WW16100003

ISSN

0146-9592

Recommended Citation

"Time-domain depolarization of waves retroreflected from dense colloidal media" (1997). Faculty Bibliography 1990s. 1890.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib1990/1890