Depolarization of light in turbid media: A scattering event resolved Monte Carlo study

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 153-162

  Guo, Xinxin ^b   Wood, Michael F G ^a   Ghosh, Nirmalya ^c   Vitkin, Alex ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c BIDHAN CHANDRA KRISHI VISWAVIDYALAYA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOLARIZATION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; LIGHT; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; TURBIDITY;

DETECTION GEOMETRY; INCIDENT POLARIZATION; LIGHT DEPOLARIZATION; LINEAR BIREFRINGENCE; PHOTON SCATTERING; POLARIZATION FRACTIONS; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE; POLARIZATION STATE;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 75449117867     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.000153     Document Type: Article

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