“…Among the most spread traditional methods for studying the scattered light fields, one can separate the following independent directions: "scalar" (photometry and spectrophotometry) 3,4 and "vector" (polarization nephelometry, Mueller-matrix optics) . Using these approaches, determined are interrelations between the sets of statistical moments of the 1-st to 4-th orders 6,7,11,15,20,26,27,31 , correlation functions 13,18,19,22,27 , fractal dimensionalities 6,7,26 that characterize phase-inhomogeneous or rough surfaces and coordinate distributions for phases 15,16,19,28 , azimuths and ellipticity of polarization in their laser images . In parallel with traditional statistical investigations, formed in recent 10 to 15 years is the new optical approach to describe a structure of polarizationally inhomogeneous fields in the case of scattered coherent radiation.…”