Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun. 1990, 55, 1022-1032
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19901022

Effect of multiple light scattering on dynamic characteristics of light scattered from latex particles

Čestmír Koňáka, Jaromír Jakeša, František Petrášb, Marie Kárskáb and Jan Peřinab

a Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 162 06 Prague 6
b Joint Laboratory of Optics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and Palacký University, 772 46 Olomouc

Abstract

The effect of multiple light scattering on a homodyne intensity auto-correlation function and photocount distribution of scattered light has been studied. The analysis of quasielastic light scattering data has shown that even a small contribution (several percent) of multiple light scattering to the total scattered light intensity can be distinguished and identified by the Laplace transform inversion of the corresponding intensity auto-correlation function. The photocount distribution reflects the coherence time changes of the scattered light only.