Introduction
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Unpolarized light Monte Carlo programs have been around for some time. Some of them are available here.
The Polarized light Monte Carlo programs described here keep track of the status of polarization of light traveling through a scattering media. In the Monte Carlo programs presented here the scatterers are microspheres. These codes use a Mie scattering program to calculate the scattering coefficients of the scattering matrix.
An important issue in Polarized light Monte Carlo is the tracking of the polarization reference frame. We show three different methods to do so
Download the Monte Carlo code you want to try
Unzip it or untar it
>unzip -iquv.08.03.zip
>untar -cf -iquv.08.03.tar
Read the README file that has a lot of information I will not repeat here
Open a terminal window
Find the directory where you put the Monte Carlo program
Make the program by typing make at the prompt
Ignore the warnings
You are now ready to run your Monte Carlo program, just type ./iquv the propt
You are done! This program produces 16 images. Launch H corresponds to a field whose status of polarization is parallel to the reference frame (Stokes Vector [1 1 0 0]), Launch V is for perpendicular (Stokes Vector [1 -1 0 0]), Launch P is for 45 degrees (Stokes Vector [1 0 1 0]), and Launch R is for right circular polarized (Stokes Vector [1 0 0 1]).
For every launched Stokes vector 4 images are created corresponding to the reflected 4 elements of the Stokes vector IQUV, so for Launch H you will have HI.dat HQ.dat HU.dat HV.dat, Launch V you will have VI.dat VQ.dat VU.dat VV.dat, and so forth
Downloads
Installing and running the programs
All programs were tested in Linux, Knoppix, and MacOSX under the Unix terminal
All programs were tested in Linux, Knoppix, and MacOSX under the Unix terminal
Step by step instructions on how to run these programs
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