Quasi-ballistic light scattering - analytical models versus Monte Carlo simulations

Approximate analytical solutions for the light scattering in a plan parallel geometry, where each scattering behaves according to a Henyey-Greenstein (HG) phase function, are presented and compared with Monte Carlo simulations. Analyzing each nth order scattered flux, the obtained angular spreading is very well described also by a HG phase function. However, the total scattered flux deviates from the HG type dependence revealing the limits of the approximations.