The statistical properties of anisotropic electromagnetic beams passing through the biological tissues

We report the analytic formula of an electromagnetic Gaussian-Schell-model (EGSM) beam propagating through the turbulent biological tissues. With the help of this formula, the changes in characteristics of the beam such as the spectral density, the spectral degree of coherence, the spectral degree of polarization, and the spectral degree of cross-polarization of the EGSM beam passing through the biological tissues are illustrated and compared by numerical examples. The changes in anisotropic and isotropic EGSM beams are indicated. Necessary comparisons and analyses of the beams generated by the anisotropic source and the isotropic source through the turbulent biological tissues are given. Moreover, the influence of the light source and turbulence of tissues on the changes of the spectral degree of cross-polarization of the EGSM beam passing through the biological tissues are compared in the near-field and the far-field. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.