Abstract

In this work, we report experiments and a theoretical scheme of photon transport in the frequency domain of rigid turbid media. We have employed spectral multi-speckle intensity correlations to estimate optical properties as the transport mean free path and the absorption length of turbid systems. We propose a scheme based on the photon diffusion model using an effective path-length distribution in the backscattering configuration and take explicitly into account the particles scattering anisotropy parameter ${g}$. By studying rigid Teflon slabs and polymer matrices doped with polystyrene particles of different degrees of scattering anisotropy, we find that the proposed model adequately describes our experimental results. Our hypothesis for the diffuse transport of backscattered photons in the weak multiple scattering regime is further validated using a numerical simulation scheme of speckle dynamics, based on the Copula method.

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