Time-resolved phase-space distributions for light backscattered from a disordered medium

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 66-69

  Wax, A ^a   Bali, S ^a   Thomas, J E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFUSION; FOURIER OPTICS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTEGRATION; LIGHT SOURCES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

BACKSCATTER; DISORDERED MEDIUM; HETERODYNE DETECTION; MOMENTUM DISTRIBUTION; TIME RESOLVED OPTICAL PHASE SPACE DISTRIBUTIONS; TRANSVERSE POSITION; WEAK LOCALIZATION; WIGNER PHASE SPACE DISTRIBUTIONS;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHT; PROCEDURES; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034214821     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.66     Document Type: Article

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