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Shaping the Amplitude and Phase of Laser Beams by Using a Phase-only Spatial Light Modulator
Published on: January 28, 2019
Pulsed light field of a point source in a scattering medium
1Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1, Akademicheskii Avenue, Tomsk 634055, Russia. kokh@iao.ru
Abstract:
Pulsed radiation propagating through a layer of a scattering medium undergoes distortions caused by multiple scattering. The results of numerical calculations of pulse waveforms for media with different scattering phase functions are presented. It is demonstrated that the scattered radiation waveform is not described by diffusion theories even for sufficiently large optical thicknesses (tau approximately 10-20) but is described, as a rule, by a bimodal distribution. Only when the optical thickness significantly increases (tau>100-150), the photon distribution over the free paths acquires the unimodal diffusion form.
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