title: Anisotropy of near-field speckle patterns.
abstract: In the vicinity of a rough interface under normal illumination the speckle field has been found to be anisotropic; that is, its correlation length is much larger in the direction of polarization than in the perpendicular direction, forming stripe-shaped speckle patterns in the near-field region. Furthermore, with increasing distance from the interface, the anisotropy of the near-field speckles decays rapidly, while the speckle size increases drastically in all directions. Based on detailed analysis, it was found that the anisotropy of the near-field speckle patterns can be attributed to polarization-dependent coupling among the evanescent waves from different surface diffusers.
authors.affiliation: National Research Laboratory of Nonlinear Optics, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, South Korea. liucheng96@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Cheng
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Seung-Han
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Park