Light transport in anisotropically scattering and absorbing media

Abstract

Promotor prof. dr. W.L. Vos Co-promotor prof. dr. A. Lagendijk Cover design: Artistic illustration of light transport in a scattering medium. Light enters from the bottom and becomes extinct as it travels through the medium. The red line represents the probe to measure the position-dependent energy density, which is used in one of the main experiments of this thesis. Concept and design by Ozan Akdemir.

Transparency, Secrecy, and Profiling Using Mutual Scattering in Complex Media

“…Light scattering has been studied for many years in the group of Complex Photonic Systems (COPS) [10]. In the present section, we give a short theoretical framework for the topics covered by this thesis and we refer the readers to previous COPS Ph.D. theses where these concepts are described in depth, and where this section is based on [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18].…”

“…Understanding the fundamental physics that rules the system at hand is crucial to optimizing light scattering correctly. However, many applications pertain to what we refer to as the industrial regime of light scattering [18]. In the industrial regime, the thickness of the designed sample L is on the order of the transport mean free path L ≈ ℓ tr .…”