Stochastic scattering polarimetry

    Authors

    D. Haefner; S. Sukhov;A. Dogariu

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Phys. Rev. Lett.

    Keywords

    APPROXIMATION; ORIENTATION; MICROSCOPY; FIELD; Physics, Multidisciplinary

    Abstract

    We introduce the general concept of stochastic scattering polarimetry and demonstrate that the anisotropic polarizability of a scattering object can be obtained by analyzing the statistical moments of polarimetrically measured intensity distributions. This general procedure is valid even in situations where the state of polarization of the incident field is not known. The efficiency of recovering different scattering polarizabilities is demonstrated numerically for several particular cases pertaining to both far- and near-field optics.

    Journal Title

    Physical Review Letters

    Volume

    100

    Issue/Number

    4

    Publication Date

    1-1-2008

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    4

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000252863400032

    ISSN

    0031-9007

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