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For elliptically polarized light incident on a two-dimensional medium with large inhomogeneities, the Stokes parameters of scattered waves are calculated. Multiple scattering is assumed to be sharply anisotropic. The degree of polarization of scattered radiation is shown to be a nonmonotonic function of depth when the incident wave is circularly polarized or its polarization vector is not parallel to the symmetry axis of the inhomogeneities.
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Original Russian Text © E.E. Gorodnichev, 2015, published in Yadernaya Fizika i Inzhiniring, 2015, Vol. 6, Nos. 11–12, pp. 665–672.
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Gorodnichev, E.E. Multiple scattering of elliptically polarized light in two-dimensional medium with large inhomogeneities. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 79, 1671–1677 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063778816140106
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