title: Reply to comment on "Excitation with a focused, pulsed optical beam in scattering media: diffraction effects.".
abstract: We address the issues that were raised by Tycho and Jørgensen [Appl. Opt. 41, 4709 (2002)] concerning our strategy [Appl. Opt. 39, 5244 (2000)] for incorporating the wave properties of light in the description of a propagating focused excitation beam in a highly scattering medium. We explain that the strategy is consistent with the Huygens-Fresnel principle and does not violate the energy conservation principle.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City.
authors.forename: Vincent Ricardo
authors.initials: VR
authors.lastname: Daria
authors.forename: Caesar
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Saloma
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kawata