MPL

Polarized Light Transport

Introduction

This web page was created in support of the papers

  • Three Monte Carlo programs of polarized light transport into scattering media: part I
  • and
  • Three Monte Carlo programs of polarized light transport into scattering media: part II


  • 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