Coherence loss in light backscattering by random media with nanoscale nonuniformities

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Brodsky, Anatol M ^a   Mitchell, Gordon T ^a   Ziegler, Summer L ^a   Burgess, Lloyd W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

MEDIA NONUNIFORMITIES; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER; NANOSUSPENSIONS;

BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 34247152538     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.046605     Document Type: Article

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