Transition from the ballistic to the snake regime of a femtosecond laser through a turbid medium via Monte Carlo simulation

Abstract

Abstract We study the transition from the ballistic to the snake regime of a femtosecond laser through a turbid medium via Monte Carlo simulation. The results show that the transition depth of the ballistic to the snake regime of a femtosecond laser through a turbid medium is close to the surface of the scattering volume. The transition process depends on the scattering coefficient of the turbid medium. Unlike the decay of the intensities of the ballistic photons governed by Beer–Lambert law, the intensities of the snake photons first increase with an increase of the thickness of the turbid medium and then decrease with a further increase of the thickness, for all scattering coefficients ranging from 10 to 20 cm−1. Further, we study the balance point of the intensity of the ballistic photons and the snake photons, which also depends on the scattering coefficient and the half-acceptance angle. The transmission depth corresponding to the transition balance point decreases with an increase of the scattering coefficient. In addition, for the transition balance point, the product of the transmission depth and scattering coefficient is approximately a constant (∼2) for a specific simulation configuration.