A study of the fluctuations of the optical properties of a turbid media through Monte Carlo method

TL;DR

This paper investigates how fluctuations in optical properties of turbid media affect light propagation, using Monte Carlo simulations to analyze different distributions and their convergence behaviors.

Contribution

It introduces a numerical Monte Carlo approach to study the impact of fluctuating optical properties in heterogeneous media, highlighting convergence issues with finite moments distributions.

Findings

Finite moments distributions may require many interactions for Gaussian convergence

Fluctuations significantly influence optical property estimations in thin films

Monte Carlo simulations effectively model heterogeneous media with variable properties

Abstract

In this work we present a theoretical study on the propagation of light in heterogeneous systems with fluctuating optical properties. To understand the consequences of the fluctuations we perform numerical calculations with uniform and non uniforms systems using Monte Carlo simulations. We consider two distributions to represent a non-uniform medium: delta function and an exponential negative distributions.The results show that even with finite moments distributions, may require a large number of interactions for a convergence towards Gaussian statistics. This can be important when estimating the optical properties of thin films.