Title
High Order Correlations In Speckle Fields
Abstract
Polarimetric investigation of fully resolved speckle patterns provides a direct measure of the joint distribution of Stokes vector elements. In the case of highly diffusive media, Gaussian statistics are usually invoked to describe the field distribution and subsequently determine the polarization distribution. However, it has been shown that various types of globally unpolarized field distributions can arise in practice, and that second order polarization correlations can be used as a means for discriminating these various ensembles. We examine polarization correlations as they relate to the thickness and morphological structure of bulk scattering media. We also comment on the usefulness of the complex degree of mutual polarization as a discriminator in this regime.
Publication Date
10-16-2006
Publication Title
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume
6254
Number of Pages
-
Document Type
Article; Proceedings Paper
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.679896
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
33749558130 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/33749558130
STARS Citation
Ellis, J. and Dogariu, A., "High Order Correlations In Speckle Fields" (2006). Scopus Export 2000s. 8160.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2000/8160