Coherence modification and phase singularities on scattering by a sphere: Mie formulation

Schouten, Hugo F.; Fischer, David G.; Visser, Taco D.

doi:10.1364/josaa.36.002005

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“…However, due to the omnipresent randomness in electromagnetic fields and scattering media [33], the effect of optical coherence on light scattering may not be ignored, and sometimes it plays a key role in determining the scattered field [34]. Extensive attention has been paid to the effect of optical coherence of the incident beam on the light scattering by the deterministic and random media [35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44]. It has been shown that not only the spatial coherence width, but also the spatial coherence structure of the incident beam has significate impact on the scattered field.…”

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Scattering of Partially Coherent Vector Beams by a Deterministic Medium Having Parity-Time Symmetry

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We study the scattering properties of the partially coherent vector beams with the deterministic media having the classic symmetric and parity-time (PT) symmetric scattering potential functions. The closed-form expressions for the intensity and polarization matrix of the far-zone scattered field are obtained, under first-order Born approximation, when the partially coherent vector beams are taken to be radially polarized and the deterministic media are assumed as the four-point scatterers. We demonstrate both analytically and numerically that the far-zone scattered field becomes noncentrosymmetric and the directionality appears in the scattering pattern when the scattering potential function is switched from classic symmetry to PT symmetry. We show the effect of spatial coherence of the incident partially coherent vector beam on the directionality in scattering. We find that by turning the symmetry property of the spatial coherence function of the incident beam, i.e., into PT symmetry, the directionality in the far-zone scattering can be suppressed or enhanced, depending on the joint effect from the symmetry of the scattering potential and the symmetry of the spatial coherence. Our findings may be useful in the application of dynamic control of the directionality in light scattering.

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