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Statistical Properties of Optical Fields Scattered by Random Media. Application to Rotating Ground Glass

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Abstract

We give a sufficient condition for the field scattered from a surface (S) illuminated by a laser beam to be a stationary gaussian field. This condition is fulfilled for the optical shot noise. As an example we calculate the spectrum of the field scattered from a granular surface. We show that it does not depend on the statistical properties of (S) when the number of grains tends to infinity.

© 1971 Optical Society of America

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