Determination of Optical Properties of a Turbid Medium Using Fiber Optic Transmission Experiment

Abstract

A new method is described for estimation of the intrinsic optical properties viz., the scattering coefficient, the absorption coefficient and the anisotropy factor of a turbid medium. Two different experimental set ups for measuring the collimated- and the diffused transmission light have been developed. At the green He-Ne laser wavelength of 543 nm, the anisotropy factor for milk was observed to be 0.91 ± 2 %, which compares well with the reported values in literature.