Helicity flip of the backscattered circular polarized light

Vladimir Kuzmin; Igor Meglinski

doi:10.1117/12.841193

26 February 2010 Helicity flip of the backscattered circular polarized light

Vladimir Kuzmin, Igor Meglinski

Proceedings Volume 7573, Biomedical Applications of Light Scattering IV; 75730Z (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.841193
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2010, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We study coherent and non-coherent backscattering of circularly polarized light from turbid media. We find that the sign of helicity of circular polarized light does not change for a medium of point-like scatterers and can change significantly for the medium with high anisotropy of scatterers. The helicity flip is observed when the light scattering is described in terms of the Henyey-Greenstein scattering phase function. The angular dependence of the sum of coherent and non-coherent parts of backscattering also exhibits a helicity flip.

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Vladimir Kuzmin and Igor Meglinski "Helicity flip of the backscattered circular polarized light", Proc. SPIE 7573, Biomedical Applications of Light Scattering IV, 75730Z (26 February 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.841193

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