Multiple light scattering in anisotropic random media

Details Multiple light scattering in anisotropic random media Multiple light scattering in anisotropic random media

1996-12-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9612182v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

23 pages, 12 ps figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.55.514

In the last decade Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy (DWS) has emerged as a powerful tool to study turbid media. In this article we develop the formalism to describe light diffusion in general anisotropic turbid media. We give explicit formulas to calculate the diffusion tensor and the dynamic absorption coefficient, measured in DWS experiments. We apply our theory to uniaxial systems, namely nematic liquid crystals, where light is scattered from thermal fluctuations of the local optical axis, called director. We perform a detailed analysis of the two essential diffusion constants, parallel and perpendicular to the director, in terms of Frank elastic constants, dielectric anisotropy, and applied magnetic field. We also point out the relevance of our results to different liquid crystalline systems, such as discotic nematics, smectic-A phases, and polymer liquid crystals. Finally, we show that the dynamic absorption coefficient is the angular average over the inverse viscosity, which governs the dynamics of director fluctuations.

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