Alternate formulation of enhanced backscattering as phase conjugation and diffraction: Derivation and experimental observation

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 11922-11931

  Rogers, Jeremy D ^a   Stoyneva, Valentina ^a   Turzhitsky, Vladimir ^a   Mutyal, Nikhil N ^a   Pradhan, Prabhakar ^a   Çapoǧlu, Ilker R ^a   Backman, Vadim ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE APERTURE; ENHANCED BACKSCATTERINGS; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FREE SPACE; HUYGENS-FRESNEL PRINCIPLE; INCIDENT WAVES; PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS; SCATTERING MATERIALS; SCATTERING PROPERTY; WEAK LOCALIZATION;

BACKSCATTERING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; FIBER OPTICS; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ARTIFACTS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 79959408572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.011922     Document Type: Article

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