Quantitative analysis of depolarization of backscattered light by stochastically inhomogeneous dielectric particles

Optics Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 902-904

  Li, Xu ^a   Taflove, Allen ^a   Backman, Vadim ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD; LINEAR DEPOLARIZATION; POLARIZED LIGHT-SCATTERING SPECTROSCOPY; STANDARD DEVIATIONS;

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 17644385191     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.30.000902     Document Type: Article

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