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Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy (DWS) is an extension of standard dynamic light scattering (DLS), applied to soft materials that are turbid or opaque. The propagation of light is modeled using light diffusion, characterized by a light diffusion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-15 Manuel Helfer , Chi Zhang , Frank Scheffold

We present a detection scheme for diffusing wave spectroscopy (DWS) based on a two cell geometry that allows efficient ensemble averaging. This is achieved by putting a fast rotating diffuser in the optical path between laser and sample. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Zakharov , F. Cardinaux , F. Scheffold

Diffusing-Wave Spectroscopy (DWS) treats the transport of photons through turbid samples as a diffusion process, thereby making it possible to extract the dynamics of scatterers from measured correlation functions. The analysis of DWS data…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-27 Zahra Fahimi , Frank Aangenendt , Panayiotis Voudouris , Johan Mattson , Hans M. Wyss

In the last decade Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy (DWS) has emerged as a powerful tool to study turbid media. In this article we develop the formalism to describe light diffusion in general anisotropic turbid media. We give explicit formulas…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Holger Stark , Tom C. Lubensky

Mathematical methods previously used (Phillies, J. Chem. Phys., 122 224905 (2005)) to interpret quasielastic light scattering spectroscopy (QELSS) spectra are here applied to relate diffusing wave spectroscopy (DWS) spectra to the moments…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 George D. J. Phillies

Diffusing wave spectroscopy (DWS) can be employed as an optical rheology tool with numerous applications for studying the structure, dynamics and linear viscoelastic properties of complex fluids, foams, glasses and gels. To carry out DWS…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-11-06 Chi Zhang , Mathias Reufer , Danila Gaudino , Frank Scheffold

Recently, there has been interest in determining the viscoelastic properties of polymeric liquids and other complex fluids by means of Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy (DWS). In this technique, light-scattering spectroscopy is applied to highly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-27 George D. J. Phillies

Dynamics light scattering (DLS) is a widely used techniques to characterize dynamics in soft phases. Evanescent Wave DLS refers to the case of total internal reflection DLS that probes near interface dynamics. We here investigate the use of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-24 Antonio Giuliani , Benoit Loppinet

All prior applications of Diffusing-Wave Spectroscopy (DWS) to aqueous foams rely upon the assumption that the electric field of the detected light is a Gaussian random variable and that, hence, the Siegert relation applies. Here we test…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 A. S. Gittings , D. J. Durian

Diffusing wave spectroscopy (DWS) is a well-known set of methods to measure the temporal dynamics of dynamic samples. In DWS, dynamic samples scatter the incident coherent light, and the information of the temporal dynamics is encoded in…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-12 Jian Xu , Ali K. Jahromi , Changhuei Yang

Diffusing-wave spectroscopy is a powerful technique which consists in measuring the temporal correlation function of the intensity of light multiply scattered by a medium. In this paper, we apply this technique to cold atoms under purely…

Multiple speckle diffusing wave spectroscopy (MSDWS) can be applied to measure spatially heterogeneous mechanical behavior in soft solids, with high sensitivity to deformation and both spatial and temporal resolution. In this paper, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-23 Jianzhu Ju , Luca Cipelletti , Stephan Zoellner , Tetsuharu Narita , Costantino Creton

Dispersive shock waves (DSWs) are fascinating wave phenomena occurring in media when nonlinearity overwhelms dispersion (or diffraction). Creating DSWs with low generation power and realizing their active controls is desirable but remains a…

Recent progresses in single particle tracking have shown evidences of non-Gaussian distribution of displacements in living cells, both near the cellular membrane and inside the cytoskeleton. A similar behavior has also been observed in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-05-30 Yann Lanoiselée , Denis S. Grebenkov

We report in this paper what is to our knowledge the first observation of a time-resolved diffusing wave spectroscopy signal recorded by transillumination through a thick turbid medium: the DWS signal is measured for a fixed photon transit…

We couple a laser-based, space-resolved dynamic light scattering apparatus to a universal testing machine for mechanical extensional tests. We perform simultaneous optical and mechanical measurements on polyether ether ketone, a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-24 M. -Y. Nagazi , G. Brambilla , G. Meunier , P. Marguerès , J. -N. Périé , L. Cipelletti

Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is a powerful non-invasive tool which is widely used in clinical routine. Mostly, apparent diffusion coefficient maps are acquired, which cannot be directly related to cellular structure. More recently it…

The electroosmotic transfer (ratio of velocity of liquid to electric current density) and conductivity of disperse system were calculated as functions of volume fraction of disperse particles. The considered model of electric double layer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Shilov , N. I. Zharkikh

Magnetic resonance imaging technique known as DWI (diffusion-weighted imaging) allows measurement of water diffusivity on a pixel basis for evaluating pathology throughout the body and is now routinely incorporated into many body MRI…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 Andrea Barucci , Roberto Carpi , Marco Esposito , Maristella Olmastroni , Giovanna Zatelli

Dispersive shock waves (DSWs) are expanding nonlinear wave trains that arise when dispersion regularizes a steepening front, a phenomenon observed in fluids, plasmas, optics, and superfluids. Here we report the first experimental…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 H. McCright , I. G. Abel , I. Haber , P. G. O'Shea , B. L. Beaudoin
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