Elliptical Polarization by Surface-layer Scattering

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May 1971

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Nature, Volume 231, Issue 5299, pp. 170-171 (1971).

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THERE is a very simple model which exhibits circular, or more accurately elliptical, polarization in light scattered obliquely from a surface and which could be applied to the circularly polarized reflected light from Jupiter1. The incident light is assumed unpolarized and several features are necessary for such an effect: (a) appreciable absorption, to generate a phase shift (quadrature retardation) between the independent linear components of the scattered light, (b) double or multiple scattering, and (c) oblique geometry, that is, a general and non-coplanar relationship between incident ray, surface normal and scattered ray vectors. Some polarization aspects of multiple light scattering have been discussed in the past2,3, but as far as we know, the type of model described here does not appear in the literature.

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