title: Stokes polarimetry in multiply scattering chiral media: effects of experimental geometry.
abstract: The spatial distribution of optical rotation alpha and surviving linear polarization fraction beta(L) of light scattered from cylindrical turbid chiral (glucose-containing) and achiral samples is studied using a linear Stokes polarimeter. alpha and beta(L) are measured in and off the incident plane as the detection angle changes from the forward to the backward direction. The experimental results exhibit a complex dependence on the detection geometry: alpha is more sensitive to glucose presence off the incident plane, whereas beta(L) exhibits larger effects in-plane, as validated by polarization sensitive Monte Carlo simulations. A rigorous methodology is presented for optimizing the experimental geometry in the polarimetric examinations of complex random systems.
authors.affiliation: Division of Biophysics and Bioimaging, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Canada. xguo@uhnres.utoronto.ca
authors.forename: Xinxin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Michael F G
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Wood
authors.forename: I Alex
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Vitkin
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016880:Anisotropy; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D005947:Glucose / Q000737:chemistry; D008027:Light; D015233:Models, Statistical; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D012031:Refractometry; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D013057:Spectrum Analysis; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D005947:Glucose