Experimental observation of universality in depolarized light scattering.
Experimental results on light depolarization due to multimode scattering are reported. By means of polarization tomography, we characterize the depolarizing power and the polarization entropy of a broad class of optically scattering media and confirm the recently predicted universal behavior of these two quantities [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 090406 (2005)].
Puentes
Graciana
G
Huygens Laboratory, Leiden University, The Netherlands. graciana@molphys.leidenuniv.nl
Voigt
Dirk
D
Aiello
Andrea
A
Woerdman
J P
JP