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Transport of light radiation in a spatially finite three-dimensional scattering medium

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We propose a new method for solving radiation transport problems, which permits including in analytic form for the case of normal incidence the effect of spatial finiteness of the scattering medium. The formation of the light field accompanying changes in the optical parameters and optical dimensions of the medium is analyzed.

this paper, we examine the simplest case of a geometry of a scattering medium in the form of a parallelipiped with optical length τx, height τy, and width τz. The analysis is performed for the case λ=1, τy = τz with the latter varying in the range 0.1 to ∞. The results obtained show that the light field depends strongly on the optical dimensions of the medium. The limiting values of the optical dimensions (τy = τz), beginning with which the spatial finiteness of the medium can be neglected, are determined.

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  1. S. M. Kirov Polytechnical Institute, Tomsk

    V. A. Savel'ev & S. B. Mogil'nitskii

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavednii, Fizika, No. 8, pp. 82–85, August, 1982.

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Savel'ev, V.A., Mogil'nitskii, S.B. Transport of light radiation in a spatially finite three-dimensional scattering medium. Soviet Physics Journal 25, 752–756 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00895255

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