Abbreviated Journal Title
Opt. Express
Keywords
RANDOM-MEDIA; WAVES; SURFACES; FLUCTUATIONS; BULKS; Optics
Abstract
Random electromagnetic fields resulting from light-matter interaction have strong intensity fluctuations and are characterized by various statistical parameters. The local polarization of these fields can also vary randomly leading to different degrees of global depolarization. Here we demonstrate that the spatial variability of the vectorial properties contains information about the origins of randomly scattered fields. In particular, we show that the complex degree of mutual polarization provides the high-order polarization correlations necessary to identify the sources of different random fields. Scattered fields with similar global properties but different origins can be efficiently discriminated from one single realization of the light-matter interaction.
Journal Title
Optics Express
Volume
18
Issue/Number
19
Publication Date
1-1-2010
Document Type
Article
Language
English
First Page
20105
Last Page
20113
WOS Identifier
ISSN
1094-4087
Recommended Citation
Broky, J. and Dogariu, A., "Complex degree of mutual polarization in randomly scattered fields" (2010). Faculty Bibliography 2010s. 7019.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2010/7019
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