The H-Alpha Double Limb: a Scattered-Light Phenomenon

Simulating the Optical Phase Conjugation Phenomenon of Light Multiply Scattered through a Macroscopic Random Medium

The light scattering effects of turbid media causing opacity may be undone via Optical Phase Conjugation (OPC). Here we rigorously simulate light scattering through a macroscopic random using the pseudospectral time-domain (PSTD) technique. The OPC phenomenon of multiply scattered light can be quantitatively analyzed which is not feasible otherwise. Specifically, factors affecting the electroma...

Fluctuations in Scattered Light

Fluctuations in scattered light constitute some of the most familiar natural optical phenomena, including the twinkling of starlight, the glittering of sunlight on a rippled water surface and the shimmering of distant objects on a hot day [1]. These effects are geometrical in origin being a consequence of refraction by large-scale random variations in refractive index. Fluctuations of this kind...

Response for light scattered in the ocular fundus from double-pass and Hartmann-Shack estimations.

Double-pass (DP) and Hartmann-Shack (HS) are complementary techniques based on reflections of light in the ocular fundus that may be used to estimate the optical properties of the human eye. Under conventional data processing, both of these assessment modes provide information on aberrations. In addition, DP data contain the effects of scattering. In the ocular fundus, this phenomenon may arise...

Scattered Light in the STIS Echelle Modes

The STIS echelle spectra obtained during the Early Release Observations (Heap et al. 1997, Walborn et al. 1997, Jenkins et al. 1997) have non-zero residuals in the cores of saturated interstellar lines, indicating the need for a scattered light correction. A rough measure of the magnitude of the needed correction is given in Figures 1 and 2, which show the ratio of the interorder to the in-orde...

"DEPOLARIZATION OF THE LIGHT SCATTERED BY SOLUTIONS OF MACROMOLECULES" H. Benolt