Significance ofDistributions in Scattering Experiments
- 27 February 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 40 (9) , 546-550
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.40.546
Abstract
Evidence is presented which suggests that a class of modified Bessel-function distributions may have special significance in describing the statistics of radiation scattered by media characterized by a wide range of length scales. It is shown that these distributions may be obtained mathematically by applying a limit procedure to the random-walk problem with a variable number of steps. The choice of distribution for the step-number fluctuations is briefly discussed.Keywords
This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
- Correlation function dependence of the scintillation behind a deep random phase screenJournal of Physics A: General Physics, 1977
- Focussing by a random phase screenOptics Communications, 1977
- A model for non-Rayleigh sea echoIEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 1976
- Photon correlation study of stellar scintillationNature, 1976
- Onefold photoelectron counting statistics for non-Gaussian light: Scattering from polydispersive suspensionsPhysical Review A, 1976
- Non-Gaussian fluctuations in electromagnetic radiation scattered by a random phase screen. II. Application to dynamic scattering in liquid crystalJournal of Physics A: General Physics, 1975
- Single-interval statistics of light scattered by identical independent scatterersJournal of Physics A: Mathematical, Nuclear and General, 1974
- The statistics of light scattered by a random phase screenJournal of Physics A: Mathematical, Nuclear and General, 1973
- Statistics of Non-Gaussian Scattered LightPhysical Review Letters, 1972
- A study of the spatial structure of turbulent flow by intensity-fluctuation spectroscopyJournal of Physics A: General Physics, 1970