Vol. 43, Issue 2, pp. 297-312
Keywords
degree of coherence, nanoparticles, Poynting vector, light scattering
Abstract
The paper proposes an alternative possibility for using the motion dynamics of tested particles of the Rayleigh light-scattering mechanism for estimating the degree of coherence of mutually orthogonal fields. The velocity of nanoparticles motion in the inhomogeneous optical field is chosen as the measuring parameter for diagnostics. The direct connection between the velocity of nanoscale particle motion and the degree of coherence of interacting fields is analytically demonstrated.