Polarized light transmission characteristics in a smoky ellipsoidal particle medium

Abstract

True natural environments are more complex, and light travels through non-spherical particle media, which can affect the transmission of light. The medium environment of non-spherical particles is more common than that of spherical particles, and some studies have shown that there are differences between spherical and non-spherical particles in polarized light transmission. Therefore, the use of spherical particles instead of non-spherical particles will result in great error. In view of this feature, this paper samples the scattering angle based on the Monte Carlo method, and then constructs a simulation model of a random sampling fitting phase function suitable for ellipsoidal particles. In this study, yeast spheroids and Ganoderma lucidum spores were prepared. The effects of different polarization states and optical thicknesses on the transmission of polarized light at three wavelengths were investigated using ellipsoidal particles with a ratio of 1.5 transverse to vertical axes. The results show that when the concentration of the medium environment increases, the polarized lights of different states all show obvious depolarization, but circularly polarized light has better polarization-preserving characteristics than linearly polarized light, and polarized light with larger wavelengths also shows more stable optical properties. When yeast and Ganoderma lucidum spores were used as the transport medium, the degree of polarization of polarized light had the same trend. However, the equal volume radius of yeast particles is smaller than that of Ganoderma lucidum spores, so when the laser is in the yeast particle medium, the polarization-maintaining property of polarized light is superior. This study provides an effective reference for the variation of polarized light transmission in an atmospheric transmission environment with heavy smoke.