Full angular profile of the coherent polarization opposition effect
We use the rigorous vector theory of weak photon localization for a semi-infinite medium composed of nonabsorbing Rayleigh scatterers to compute the full angular profile of the polarization opposition effect. The effect is caused by coherent backscattering of unpolarized incident light and accompanies the well-known backscattering intensity peak.
Mishchenko
MI
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York 10025, USA.
Luck
JM
Nieuwenhuizen
TM