title: Scattering delay time of Mie scatterers determined from steady-state and time-resolved optical spectroscopy.
abstract: We have determined the scattering delay time of Mie scatterers (r = 255 nm quartz spheres in polyester resin) from a combination of steady-state (integrating-sphere) and time-resolved (frequency-domain) measurements performed in the multiple-scattering regime. The effective transport velocity of light was derived from intensity and phase measurements at four different wavelengths by using the time-integrated microscopic Beer-Lambert law. We could demonstrate a systematic underestimation of the effective transport velocity compared with the phase velocity in the medium. Assuming that this discrepancy was caused entirely by the transient nature of a single-scattering process, the data presented resulted in time delays of between 18 fs (lambda = 678 nm) and 177 fs (lambda = 1,064 nm) per scattering event. For three out of four wavelengths investigated, the measured values are in excellent agreement with values predicted by a theoretical model for the scattering delay time based on Mie theory.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Laser Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany. willmann@uni-duesseldorf.de
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Willmann
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Terenji
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Busse
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Yaroslavsky
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Yaroslavsky
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Schwarzmaier
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hering
mesh_terms: D008027:Light; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D017785:Photons; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D013997:Time Factors