Electric field Monte Carlo simulation of coherent backscattering of polarized light by a turbid medium containing Mie scatterers

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 5728-5738

  Sawicki, John ^a   Kastor, Nikolas ^a   Xu, Min ^a  

^a FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ELECTRIC FIELD MONTE CARLO (EMC) METHOD; MIE SCATTERERS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 42449104422     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.005728     Document Type: Article

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