On the scattering phenomena for various kinds of polarized light in a nonpolar fluid composed of chiral molecules

Abstract

The explicit result of the coefficients of the Mueller matrices, which express the Stokes parameters of single and double scattered lights in term of the parameters of the corresponding incident light, are obtained for a nonpolar fluid composed of chiral molecules with the aid of the Ornstein–Zernike form for the correlation function of density fluctuations. The explicit results show that any higher order multiple scattering satisfies the principle of symmetry and law of reciprocity. From the matrices some scattering phenomena for six kinds of completely polarized light in a nonpolar achiral fluid are discussed in the cases of far from and near the critical point. While the degrees of circularity (DCs) give identical information with the circular intensity differences (CIDs) in the region far from the critical point, the critical DCs for circularly polarized lights is quite different from the critical CIDs. The theoretical result of DCs for the circularly polarized lights indicates that the DCs can be other effective experimental tools to measure the critical scattering of a fluid.