Citation:
MacKintosh, F. C. ; Zhu, J. X. ; Pine, D. J. ; Weitz, D. A. Polarization memory of multiply scattered-light. Physical Review B 1989, 40, 9342-9345. Copy at http://www.tinyurl.com/y2a7u5kv
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Abstract:
Light backscattered from an optically dense random medium is shown to exhibit a pronounced polarization dependence. An unexpected memory of the incident circular polarization of multiply scattering light arises because the wave’s helicity is randomized less rapidly than is its direction. A simple model is developed to account for the observed polarization dependence of the intensity and temporal correlations of the intensity fluctuations of backscattered light.