Identifying non-stationarities in random em fields: Are speckles really disturbing?

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 14469-14475

  Broky, John ^a   Ellis, Jeremy ^a   Dogariu, Aristide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ENHANCED BACKSCATTERINGS; ENSEMBLE AVERAGING; FIELD COMPONENTS; FOURTH ORDER; NON-STATIONARITIES; RANDOM MEDIUM; SPATIAL POINTS; WAVE INTERACTIONS;

BACKSCATTERING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 51849097366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.014469     Document Type: Article

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