Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect with partially coherent electromagnetic beams scattered by a random medium

Abstract

The expressions for the correlation of intensity fluctuations in the far-zone that occurs in stochastic electromagnetic beams scattered by a random medium are derived within the validity of the first-order Born approximation. Some numerical results are presented to illustrate the influences of different source parameters and scatterer parameters on the normalized correlation of intensity fluctuations of the far-zone scattered field.