Light backscattering polarization patterns from turbid media: theory and experiment
Abstract
We present both experimental measurements and Monte-Carlo-based simulations of the diffusely backscattered intensity patterns that arise from illuminating a turbid medium with a polarized laser beam. It is rigorously shown that, because of axial symmetry of the system, only seven elements of the effective backscattering Mueller matrix are independent. A new numerical method that allows simultaneous calculation of all 16 elements of the two-dimensional Mueller matrix is used. To validate our method we compared calculations to measurements from a turbid medium that consisted of polystyrene spheres of different sizes and concentrations in deionized water. The experimental and numerical results are in excellent agreement.
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© 1999 Optical Society of America. Received 23 June 1998; revised manuscript received 22 January 1999. This research was partially supported by the Office of Naval Research under contract N00014-95-1-0275, the Office of Vice President for Research at Texas A&M University, and the Whitaker Foundation.Attached Files
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- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
- N00014-95-1-0275
- Texas A&M University
- Whitaker Foundation
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