TY - JOUR
T1 - Coherence modification and phase singularities on scattering by a sphere
T2 - Mie formulation
AU - Schouten, Hugo F.
AU - Fischer, David G.
AU - Visser, Taco D.
PY - 2019/12
Y1 - 2019/12
N2 - When light that is spatially partially coherent, such as sunlight, is incident on a sphere, the scattered field exhibits surprising coherence properties. The observed oscillatory behavior with deep minima means that the field in certain pairs of directions is highly correlated, whereas in others, it is essentially uncorrelated, and can even have correlation singularities. Because any subsequent scattering event is strongly affected by the state of coherence, these results are particularly important for multiple scattering in discrete disordered media.
AB - When light that is spatially partially coherent, such as sunlight, is incident on a sphere, the scattered field exhibits surprising coherence properties. The observed oscillatory behavior with deep minima means that the field in certain pairs of directions is highly correlated, whereas in others, it is essentially uncorrelated, and can even have correlation singularities. Because any subsequent scattering event is strongly affected by the state of coherence, these results are particularly important for multiple scattering in discrete disordered media.
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U2 - 10.1364/JOSAA.36.002005
DO - 10.1364/JOSAA.36.002005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85075779739
SN - 1084-7529
VL - 36
SP - 2005
EP - 2010
JO - Journal of the Optical Society of America. A: Optics, image science, and vision.
JF - Journal of the Optical Society of America. A: Optics, image science, and vision.
IS - 12
ER -