Complex degree of mutual polarization in randomly scattered fields.

Random electromagnetic fields resulting from light-matter interaction have strong intensity fluctuations and are characterized by various statistical parameters. The local polarization of these fields can also vary randomly leading to different degrees of global depolarization. Here we demonstrate that the spatial variability of the vectorial properties contains information about the origins of randomly scattered fields. In particular, we show that the complex degree of mutual polarization provides the high-order polarization correlations necessary to identify the sources of different random fields. Scattered fields with similar global properties but different origins can be efficiently discriminated from one single realization of the light-matter interaction.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Optics Express

• Publication date

  2010-09-13

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1364/OE.18.020105PMID 20940900
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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