title: Enhanced backscattering of optical vortex fields.
abstract: The effect of an incident field with a phase screw dislocation (a so-called optical vortex) on the shape of the enhanced backscattering cone was studied theoretically and demonstrated experimentally. We show that the correlation function of the incident field acts as a filter that modifies the shape of the enhanced backscattering cone. The peak value is reduced, and its width is increased as the topological charge of the phase dislocation increases.
authors: College of Optics and Photonics, CREOL, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA.
authors: Chaim
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authors: Schwartz
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