Preferred Label : depolarization of scattered light;
IUPAC definition : The phenomenon, due primarily to the anisotropy of the polarizability of the scattering
medium, resulting from the fact that the electric vectors of the incident and scattered
beams are not coplanar and that, therefore, light scattered from a vertically (horizontally)
polarized incident beam contains a horizontal (vertical) component.;
Origin ID : D01598;
See also
The phenomenon, due primarily to the anisotropy of the polarizability of the scattering
medium, resulting from the fact that the electric vectors of the incident and scattered
beams are not coplanar and that, therefore, light scattered from a vertically (horizontally)
polarized incident beam contains a horizontal (vertical) component.
