Scattering of electromagnetic light waves from a deterministic anisotropic medium

Based on the weak scattering theory of electromagnetic waves, analytical expressions are derived for the spectral densities and degrees of polarization of an electromagnetic plane wave scattered from a deterministic anisotropic medium. It is shown that the normalized spectral densities of scattered field is highly dependent of changes of the scattering angle and degrees of polarization of incident plane waves. The degrees of polarization of scattered field are also subjective to variations of these parameters. In addition, the anisotropic effective radii of the dielectric susceptibility can lead essential influences on both spectral densities and degrees of polarization of scattered field. They are highly dependent of the effective radii of the medium. The obtained results may be applicable to determine anisotropic parameters of medium by quantitatively measuring statistics of a far-zone scattered field.