Cairns and Foley 1993

Cairns, B., and J.T. Foley, 1993: Contribution of the second-order Born approximation to the scattered intensity. Opt. Comm., 101, 144-150.

Weak scattering is usually analyzed by using the first-order terms for the field to calculate the scattered intensity. We investigate the contribution to the scattered intensity made by the product of the zeroth-order and second-order terms of the Born approximation for the field, for two different geometries, for the case in which the scattering potential is a zero-mean random process and the scattering medium is quasi-homogeneous. It is shown that in some situations the product of first-order terms is sufficient for calculating the scattered intensity, but that in other situations the contribution from the product of the zeroth-order and second-order terms must be included. This result is directly applicable to the question of whether spectral shifts will be observed in scattering from elastic media.

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Cairns, B., and Foley, J.T.: Contribution of the second-order Born approximation to the scattered intensity, Opt. Comm., 101, 144-150, 1993.

Cairns, B., and J.T. Foley (1993), Contribution of the second-order Born approximation to the scattered intensity, Opt. Comm., 101, 144-150.

Cairns, B., and J.T. Foley, 1993: Contribution of the second-order Born approximation to the scattered intensity. Opt. Comm., 101, 144-150.

Cairns, B., & Foley, J.T. 1993, Opt. Comm., 101, 144.

Cairns B, Foley JT. Contribution of the second-order Born approximation to the scattered intensity, Opt Comm 1993;101:144-150.

B. Cairns, J.T. Foley, Opt. Comm. 101, 144-150 (1993).