Title

Coherent backscattering of singular beams

Authors

Authors

C. Schwartz;A. Dogariu

Comments

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

Abbreviated Journal Title

Opt. Commun.

Keywords

coherent backscattering; singular optics; ENHANCED BACKSCATTERING; WEAK LOCALIZATION; DISORDERED MEDIA; LIGHT-SCATTERING; DISLOCATIONS; VORTICES; PHOTONS; Optics

Abstract

The phenomenon of coherent backscattering depends on both the statistical characteristics of a random scattering medium and the correlation features of the incident field. Imposing a wavefront singularity on the incident field offers a unique and very attractive way to modify the field correlations in a deterministic manner. The field correlations are found to act as a path-length filter which modifies the distribution of different contributions to the enhancement cone. This effect is thoroughly discussed and demonstrated experimentally for the case of single scale scattering systems. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Optics Communications

Volume

258

Issue/Number

2

Publication Date

1-1-2006

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

79

Last Page

89

WOS Identifier

WOS:000234614600001

ISSN

0030-4018

Share

COinS