Abstract

We demonstrate a method for fully characterizing diffuse transport oflight in a statistically anisotropic opaque material. Our techniqueprovides a simple means of determining all parameters governinganisotropic diffusion. Anisotropy in the diffusion constant, the meanfree path, and the extrapolation length are, for the first time,determined independently. These results show that the anisotropicdiffusion model is effective for modeling transport in anisotropicsamples, providing that the light is allowed to travel several times thetransport mean free path from the source.

Authors

P. M. Johnson, S. Faez, A. Lagendijk

Year of publication

2008

Date published

05/2008

Journal

Opt. Express

Volume

16

Pages

7435-7446

Keywords

anisotropic diffusion model, coherence, statistical optics