Depolarized Components of Light Scattered by Glasses. I. Measurements on Twelve Optical Glasses

Measurements were made of Rayleigh's ratio and the depolarization ratios ρv and ρh on twelve optical glasses. Within an estimated error of ±5%, the ratio ρh equals unity in eleven of them, in apparent contradiction to the work of other investigators. It is concluded that light scattering does not distinguish a glass from a liquid.