Title

Photon Pathlength Distribution From Polarized Backscattering In Random Media

Keywords

Backscattering; Photons; Polarized light; Scatterers; Stokes parameters

Abstract

Linearly polarized light backscattered from weakly scattering slabs in the cross-polarized channel manifests a symmetrical pattern. The origin and the properties of the pattern are explained and how it can be used to extract the average pathlength of the photons in the medium is shown. It is also shown that the concentration of scatterers rather than the optical depth of the sample determines the properties of the cross-polarized backscattered light. © 1996 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.

Publication Date

1-1-1996

Publication Title

Optical Engineering

Volume

35

Issue

8

Number of Pages

2234-2239

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1117/1.601016

Socpus ID

0001763172 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0001763172

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