Abstract

The measurement of the bonded area of pulp fibers has been an unsolved issue in paper science for more than 40 years. By the use of an established pulp fiber model, and a $4\times 4$ transfer matrix formalism we simulated the optical behavior of pulp fibers in a modified imaging ellipsometer, and we demonstrate that there are rather strong symmetries in the ellipsometric angles $\mathrm{\Psi }$ and $\mathrm{\Delta }$ when comparing single fibers, unbonded fiber crossings, and fiber–fiber bonds. Based on these symmetries we propose and test an algorithm that allows to distinguish the three cases (single fibers, unbonded fiber crossings, and fiber–fiber bonds) in the analysis of ellipsometric data.

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