A Multislice computational model for birefringent scattering

TL;DR

This paper introduces an analytical model for simulating optical field propagation in birefringent scattering media, incorporating full tensor properties and multiple scattering, validated through experiments.

Contribution

It provides the first analytical model including the full tensor nature of birefringence for efficient simulation of scattering media.

Findings

Successful validation with birefringence-controlled experiments.

Enhanced modeling accuracy for birefringent scattering media.

Potential for improved design and regularization in photonics applications.

Abstract

Modeling optical field propagation in highly scattering and birefringent medium is of important interest to many photonic research branches. Despite the existence of numerical electromagnetic simulation tools and beam propagation method frameworks, there has been a lack of an analytical model including the full tensor nature of birefringence, which is an essential forward-propagation tool for applications requiring efficiently iterative regularization and end-to-end designs. Here, we present an analytical tool for modeling field propagation in a birefringent scattering medium by including a full set of field tensor elements and multiple scattering characteristics. Birefringence-controlled field propagation experiments were successfully carried out to validate the proposed model.