Abstract
We present a technique for efficiently computing the reflection and transmission of light by arbitrary systems of turbid layers. To approximate the steady-state reflectance and transmittance without the need to solve difficult boundary conditions, we convolve the reflectance and transmittance profiles of individual layers. We extend single-slab boundary conditions to handle index-of-refraction mismatches between turbid slabs and account for interlayer scattering by applying methods similar to Kubelka–Munk theory in frequency space. We demonstrate good agreement between the reflectance and the transmittance predicted by our model and numerical Monte Carlo methods and show that the far-source reflectance and transmittance of multilayered turbid materials are dominated by interlayer scattering.
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