Statistical properties of a photon gas in random media

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2002 Sep;66(3 Pt 2B):037601. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.66.037601. Epub 2002 Sep 11.

Abstract

This paper is devoted to a derivation of the probability distribution of photon escape from a semi-infinite random medium, depending on the number of its interactions with macroscopic particles inside the medium. The consideration is limited to the case of highly developed multiple light scattering. The distribution function found facilitates the solution of both direct and inverse problems in light scattering media optics.