KEYWORDS: Light scattering, Scattering, Polarization, Polarimetry, 3D modeling, Photon polarization, Environmental sensing, 3D metrology, Monte Carlo methods, Mie scattering
A three-dimensional (3D) polarimetric tracking model is proposed to calculate scattering interactions between light and media, where a 9×1 coherency or Stokes vector is used to represent the scattered 3D polarized light. Compared with the present Monte Carlo program, this model not only address the continuous rotations problem of the reference plane at least 2 to 3 times, but also realizes the statistics tracking of 3D vibration distribution (i.e., 3D polarization state) for the scattered light in real time. In this paper, we introduce two 3D cartesian coordinate systems: a global coordinate system of an entire scattering environment, and a local coordinate system of a scattering event. Within the proposed 3D polarimetric tracking model, the polarization transformation effect (PTE) related to every scattering event is preciously tracked in corresponding local coordinate system, and the calculated 3D PTE has a 9×9 coherency transformation matrix or Mueller matrix mathematically. Importantly, by utilizing only one rotation of coordinate system, the final 3D polarization transformation effect of an entire scattering environment can be uniquely determined by successive multiplication of all 9×9 matrices characterizing scattering events. The study can be widely applied in several applications of biomimetic polarization navigation, remote sensing, marine surveillance and environmental security to preciously quality the PTE of multitudinous scattering environments.
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