Photon pathlength distribution from polarized backscattering in random media

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2234-2239

  Dogariu, Madi ^a   Asakura, Toshimitsu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Backscattering; Photons; Polarized light; Scatterers; Stokes parameters

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001763172     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601016     Document Type: Article

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