Title
Electric field Monte Carlo simulation of coherent backscattering of polarized light by turbid medium
Document Type
Article
Article Version
Publisher's PDF
Publication Date
2008
Abstract
A method for directly simulating coherent backscattering of polarized light by a turbid medium has been developed based on the Electric field Monte Carlo (EMC) method. Electric fields of light traveling in a pair of time-reversed paths are added coherently to simulate their interference. An efficient approach for computing the electric field of light traveling along a time-reversed path is derived and implemented based on the time-reversal symmetry of electromagnetic waves. Coherent backscattering of linearly and circularly polarized light by a turbid medium containing Mie scatterers is then investigated using this method.
Publication Title
Optics Express
Repository Citation
Xu, Min; Sawicki, John; and Kastor, Nikolas, "Electric field Monte Carlo simulation of coherent backscattering of polarized light by turbid medium" (2008). Physics Faculty Publications. 9.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/physics-facultypubs/9
Published Citation
John Sawicki, Nikolas Kastor, and Min Xu. Electric field Monte Carlo simulation of coherent backscattering of polarized light by turbid medium. Optics Express, 16(8):5728-5738, 2008. http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/issue.cfm?volume=16&issue=8
DOI
10.1364/OE.16.005728
Peer Reviewed
Comments
Copyright Optical Society of America 2008