Classical and Quantum Scattering in Optical Systems

GRACIANA PUENTES

casimir PhD Series

Año: 2007 p. 103

978-90-8593-0266

In this Thesis we analyzed the effect of a large variety of linear scattering processes both on classical light (Chapter 4-5) and on two-photon quantum light (Chapter 6-9). The main part of this analysis refers to the polarization degrees of freedom of scattered light where the medium parameters are phenomenologically described within the Mueller matrix formal- ism. The main tool used for this characterization is multi-spatial-mode optical polarization tomography, both in its classical and quantum versions. Additionally, in fact as a starter for this Thesis, we have numerically investigated dynam- ical properties of ray scattering in optical cavities by using Hamiltonian optics (Chapter 2-3). The paraxial description of light rays in such optical cavities is described within the ABCD matrix formalism.