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This book encompasses several studies relating to the theory of weak potential scattering of scalar and electromagnetic random, wide-sense statistically stationary fields from various types of deterministic or random linear media. The proposed theory is largely based on the first Born approximation for potential scattering and on the angular spectrum representation of fields. The main focus of the scalar counterpart of the theory is made on calculation of the second-order statistics of scattered light fields in cases when the scattering medium consists of several types of discrete particles with deterministic or random potentials. The second part of the dissertation includes the theoretical procedure developed for predicting the second-order statistics of the electromagnetic random fields, such as polarization and linear momentum, scattered from static media. The analysis should help shed some light on the optical community and should be especially useful to scientists and experts in Optical Scattering fields.

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Zhisong Tong, Ph.D.:Studied Physics at University of Miami. Research Associate at Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Authored/co-authored more than 23 scientific publications. Current research interests include coherence and polarization of stochastic light and super-resolution technology.

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