PLANE-WAVE SCATTERING FROM A NONCHIRAL OBJECT IN A CHIRAL ENVIRONMENT

The problem of a nonchiral object; in an isotropic medium is analyzed through wave-field decomposition and treatment of the chiral medium as a combination of two nonchiral media. wave fields of the object are f ormed, suitable for numerical computation. solutions are found through the Born approximation. As a special case, a spherical object is cons idered and; expressions for the scattered far fields are found in expl icit analytical form. As numerical examples, certain measurable polari zation quantities are presented together with their interpretation. Th e theory is applicable, for example, to the analysis of data obtained from the measurement of the glucose content of blood in terms of light scattered from blood cells. (C) 1996 Optical Society of America.