Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1996-08-20
Journal of Physics A 29 (1996) 4915.
Physics
Condensed Matter
52 pages, plain TeX. Figures (hard copies) available upon request. To appear in the Journal of Physics A
Scientific paper
10.1088/0305-4470/29/16/016
The multiple scattering of scalar waves in diffusive media is investigated by means of the radiative transfer equation. This approach, which does not rely on the diffusion approximation, becomes asymptotically exact in the regime of most interest, where the scattering mean free path $\ell$ is much larger than the wavelength $\lambda_0$. Quantitative predictions are derived in that regime, concerning various observables pertaining to optically thick slabs, such as the mean angle-resolved reflected and transmitted intensities, and the width of the enhanced backscattering cone. Special emphasis is put on the dependence of these quantities on the anisotropy of the cross-section of the individual scatterers, and on the internal reflections due to the optical index mismatch at the boundaries of the sample. The large index mismatch regime is studied analytically, for arbitrary anisotropic scattering. The regime of very anisotropic scattering, where the transport mean free path $\ell^*$ is much larger than the scattering mean free path $\ell$, is then investigated in detail. The relevant Schwarzschild-Milne equation is solved exactly in the absence of internal reflections.
Amic E.
Luck Mck. J.
Nieuwenhuizen Th. M.
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