Université de Fribourg

Depolarization of backscattered linear lypolarized ligh

Rojas-Ochoa, Luis Fernando ; Lacoste, David ; Lenke, Ralf ; Schurtenberger, Peter ; Scheffold, Frank

In: Journal of the Optical Society of America: A, 2004, vol. 21, p. 1799-1804

We formulate a quantitative description of backscattered linearly polarized light with an extended photon diffusion formalism taking explicitly into account the scattering anisotropy parameter g of the medium. From diffusing wave spectroscopy measurements, the characteristic depolarization length for linearly polarized light, lp, is deduced. We investigate the dependence of this length on the...