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

Socpus ID

33749558130 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/33749558130

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