Abstract
The preservation of polarization and coherence of the signal light transmitted through strongly scattering media such as biological tissues have been examined for the feasibility study of optical coherence imaging in tissues. Our experimental results indicate that the multiply scattered and diffused components of transmitted light through scattering medium become not only randomly depolarized, but spatially incoherent, making them insensitive to optical heterodyne detection that is based on the interference of the signal and local oscillator beams.
