Correlation between intensity fluctuations of light generated by scattering of Young’s diffractive electromagnetic waves by a quasi-homogeneous, anisotropic medium

Abstract

Based on the first-order Born approximation, formulas are derived for the correlation between intensity fluctuations (CIF) of light generated by a Young's diffractive electromagnetic wave scattered by a spatially quasi-homogeneous (QH), anisotropic medium. It is shown that the CIF of the scattered field can be written as the summation of the Fourier transforms of the strengths and normalized correlation coefficients (NCCs) of the scattering potentials. The differences between our results and those obtained in the previous literature are discussed. Our results might be important in investigating the high-order intensity correlation of an electromagnetic wave scattered from a 3D anisotropic object.

Reciprocal relations for light from Young’s pinholes scattering upon a quasi-homogeneous medium

“…Meanwhile the spectral density of the scattered field is related to the correlation length of the medium. Recently, we performed detailed studies on revealing the scattered prop erties of a Young's diffractive beam from spatially QH [22], deterministic [23] and anisotropic [24] medium, respectively.…”