Enhanced backscattering of optical vortex fields

    Authors

    C. Schwartz;A. Dogariu

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Lett.

    Keywords

    WEAK LOCALIZATION; COHERENT BACKSCATTERING; LIGHT-SCATTERING; MEDIA; Optics

    Abstract

    The effect of an incident field with a phase screw dislocation (a so-called optical vortex) on the shape of the enhanced backscattering cone was studied theoretically and demonstrated experimentally. We show that the correlation function of the incident field acts as a filter that modifies the shape of the enhanced backscattering cone. The peak value is reduced, and its width is increased as the topological charge of the phase dislocation increases. (c) 2005 Optical Society of America

    Journal Title

    Optics Letters

    Volume

    30

    Issue/Number

    12

    Publication Date

    1-1-2005

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    1431

    Last Page

    1433

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000229689400001

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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