Effect of the photon's Brownian Doppler shift on the weak-localization coherent-backscattering cone.
We report the first observation of the dependence of the coherent-backscattering (CBS) enhanced cone with the frequency of the backscattered photon. The experiment is performed on a diffusing liquid suspension and the Doppler broadening of light is induced by the Brownian motion of the scatterers. Heterodyne detection on a CCD camera is used to measure the complex field (i.e., the hologram) of the light that is backscattered at a given frequency. The analysis of the holograms yield the frequency and the propagation direction of the backscattered photons. We observe that the angular CBS cone becomes more narrow in the tail of the Brownian spectrum. The experimental results are in good agreement with a simple theoretical model.
Lesaffre
Max
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Laboratoire Kastler Brossel de L'Ecole Normale Supérieure, UMR 8552 CNRS, 24 rue Lhomond F-75005 Paris, France.
Atlan
Michael
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Gross
Michel
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