• DocumentCode
    444198
  • Title

    Enhanced backscattering of vortex fields

  • Author

    Schwartz, C. ; Dogariu, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Coll. of Opt., Central Florida Univ., Orlando, FL, USA
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    22-27 May 2005
  • Firstpage
    527
  • Abstract
    The effect of using an illumination beam with a phase screw dislocation (a so called optical vortex beam) on filtering the path lengths contributions to enhanced backscattering from random media was studied theoretically and demonstrated experimentally.
  • Keywords
    backscatter; light coherence; light scattering; optical vortices; random media; enhanced backscattering; illumination beam; optical vortex beam; phase screw dislocation; random media; Backscatter; Electromagnetic scattering; Fourier transforms; Lighting; Optical filters; Optical scattering; Optical vortices; Particle scattering; Random media; Surface waves;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2005. QELS '05
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-796-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/QELS.2005.1548840
  • Filename
    1548840