Principles of Scattering and Transport of Light

A systematic and accessible treatment of light scattering and transport in disordered media from first principles.

Rémi Carminati (Author), John C. Schotland (Author)

9781107146938, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 July 2021

350 pages
25 x 17.5 x 2.4 cm, 0.81 kg

'The book is very clearly written, and each part contains extensive references and exercises, enabling the book to fill its pedagogical role.' Mircea Dragoman, Optics & Photonics News

Light scattering is one of the most well-studied phenomena in nature. It occupies a central place in optical physics, and plays a key role in multiple fields of science and engineering. This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to the subject. For the first time, the authors bring together in a self-contained and systematic manner, the physical concepts and mathematical tools that are used in the modern theory of light scattering and transport, presenting them in a clear, accessible style. The power of these tools is demonstrated by a framework that links various aspects of the subject: scattering theory to radiative transport, radiative transport to diffusion, and field correlations to the statistics of speckle patterns. For graduate students and researchers in optical physics and optical engineering, this book is an invaluable resource on the interaction of light with complex media and the theory of light scattering in disordered and complex systems.

Foreword
Preface
1. Introduction
Part I. Wave Optics: 2. Electromagnetic waves
3. Geometrical optics
4. Waves at interfaces
5. Green's functions and integral representations
6. Plane-wave expansions
7. Diffraction
8. Coherence theory: basic concepts
9. Coherence theory: propagation of correlations
Part II. Scattering of Waves: 10. Scattering theory
11. Optical theorem
12. Scattering in model systems
13. Renormalized perturbation theory
14. Wave reciprocity
Part III. Wave Transport: 15. Multiple scattering: average field
16. Multiple scattering: field correlations and radiative transport
17. Radiative transport: multiscale theory
18. Discrete scatterers and spatial correlations
19. Time-dependent radiative transport and energy velocity
Part IV. Radiative Transport and Diffusions: 20. Radiative transport: boundary conditions and integral representations
21. Elementary solutions of the radiative transport equation
22. Problems with planar and azimuthal symmetry
23. Scattering theory for the radiative transport equation
24. Diffusion approximation
25. Diffuse light
26. Diffuse optics
27. Scattering of diffuse waves
Part V. Speckle and Interference Phenomena: 28. Intensity statistics
29. Some properties of Rayleigh statistics
30. Bulk speckle correlations
31. Two-frequency speckle correlations
32. Amplitude and intensity propagators for multiply-scattered fields
33. Far-field angular speckle correlations
34. Coherent backscattering
35. Dynamic light scattering
Part VI. Electromagnetic Waves and Near-field Scattering: 36. Vector waves
37. Electromagnetic Green's functions
38. Electric dipole radiation
39. Scattering of electromagnetic waves
40. Electromagnetic reciprocity and the optical theorem
41. Electromagnetic scattering by subwavelength particles
42. Multiple scattering of electromagnetic waves: Average field
43. Multiple scattering of electromagnetic waves: radiative transport
44. Bulk electromagnetic speckle correlations
45. Near-field speckle correlations
46. Speckle correlations produced by a point source
Exercises
Index.

Subject Areas: Applied optics [TTB], Optical physics [PHJ]