Two-stream theory of diffusing light spectroscopies

✍ Scribed by D.J. Durian

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 913 KB
• Volume: 229
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-4371
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(96)00020-9

✦ Synopsis

A theory for the propagation of light through a randomly scattering slab is developed that does not take advantage of a diffusion approximation but can be solved analytically. The treatment allows for scattering anisotropy and boundary reflectivity to be incorporated in a straightforward fashion for slabs of arbitrary thickness. Predictions are found for both the transmission probability and the electric field autocorrelation function which, respectively, can be used to analyze diffuse-transmission spectroscopy and diffusing-wave spectroscopy data more accurately.