Title
Backscattered Polarization Patterns Determined By Conservation Of Angular Momentum
Abstract
It is demonstrated that the occurence of backscattered polarization patterns relates to the conservation of angular momentum of light. Using the geometrical phase formalism in the spin space, we develop a model where the helicity-maintaining and the helicity-flipping multiple-scattering processes can be accounted for. The model explains practically all the symmetries present in the spatially resolved Mueller matrices. © 2008 Optical Society of America.
Publication Date
1-1-2008
Publication Title
Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision
Volume
25
Issue
2
Number of Pages
431-436
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.25.000431
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
41549146622 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/41549146622
STARS Citation
Schwartz, Chaim and Dogariu, Aristide, "Backscattered Polarization Patterns Determined By Conservation Of Angular Momentum" (2008). Scopus Export 2000s. 10756.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2000/10756