Transmission, backscattering, and depolarization of waves in randomly distributed spherical particles
General formulations are given for the multiple scattering of a polarized wave incident upon a slab of randomly distributed spherical paticles. The radiative transfer equation with Stokes vectors is decomposed into Fourier components, and they are shown for linearly and circularly polarized incident wave. For linear polarization, the copolarized and cross-polarized incoherent intensities show sinusoidal variations with the azimuthal angle. The degree of polarization is also calculated for various directions an optical thickness. The calc5.arc(7,306); ticedt 23May83 15:15:45.000 (7,301) cat65a.dat; ticedt 24May83 14:23:03.916 (7,301) save.dat; General formulations are given for the multiple scattering of a polarized wave incident upon a slab of randomly distributed spherical paticles. The radiative transfer equation with Stokes vectors is decomposed into Fourier components, and they are shown for linearly and circularly polarized incident wave. For linear polarization, the copolarized and cross-polarized incoherent intensities show sinusoidal variations with the azimuthal angle. The degree of polarization is also calculated for various directions an optical thickness. The calculations are made for optical waves at 5, 10, and 15 ..mu..m in fog and compared with the first-order scattering calculations.
- Research Organization:
- Rudolf Lap-Tung Cheung is with Transco Products, Inc., Marina Del-Rey, California 90291; Akira Ishimaru is with University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, Seattle, Washington 98195.
- OSTI ID:
- 5575924
- Journal Information:
- Appl. Opt.; (United States), Vol. 21:20
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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