Title
Experimental Investigation Of Circular Light Depolarization Using Polarization Sensitive Oct
Keywords
Depolarization; OCT; Scattering
Abstract
We present an experimental study of the depolarization of circularly polarized (CP) light backscattered from random media. We employ a polarization sensitive OCT, capable of producing intensity profiles for two orthogonal polarization channels simultaneously. For CP light backscattered from polystyrene solutions containing spherical particles of sizes larger than the radiation wavelength, the phenomenon of polarization memory is observed. The degree of circular polarization (DOCP) as a function of the path the light travels in the medium depends on the scatterers' size. In the case of scatterers larger than the wavelength, the DOCP exhibits a minimum indicating a helicity cross-over. The copolarized light then exceeds the intensity of cross-polarized light of backscattered radiation, a phenomenon predicted theoretically but not observed experimentally so far. The helicity cross-over is observed in the DOCP curves for large scatterers at small and large concentrations.
Publication Date
5-22-2007
Publication Title
Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
Volume
6429
Number of Pages
-
Document Type
Article; Proceedings Paper
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.703710
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
34248578021 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/34248578021
STARS Citation
Charalambous, Ismini; Cucu, Radu; Dogariu, Aristide; and Podoleanu, Adrian, "Experimental Investigation Of Circular Light Depolarization Using Polarization Sensitive Oct" (2007). Scopus Export 2000s. 6737.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2000/6737