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Polarization-Sensitive Two-Photon Microscopy for a Label-Free Amyloid Structural Characterization
Published on: September 8, 2023
Markov chain formalism for polarized light transfer in plane-parallel atmospheres, with numerical comparison to the
Feng Xu1, Anthony B Davis, Robert A West
1Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109, USA. feng.xu@jpl.nasa.gov
Abstract:
Building on the Markov chain formalism for scalar (intensity only) radiative transfer, this paper formulates the solution to polarized diffuse reflection from and transmission through a vertically inhomogeneous atmosphere. For verification, numerical results are compared to those obtained by the Monte Carlo method, showing deviations less than 1% when 90 streams are used to compute the radiation from two types of atmospheres, pure Rayleigh and Rayleigh plus aerosol, when they are divided into sublayers of optical thicknesses of less than 0.03.
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